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Erwin von Witzleben

August 9, 1944

German field marshal (1881–1944)

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Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben, born December 4, 1881 in Breslau, Germany, died August 8, 1944 in Plötzensee prison in Berlin, was a German military man; general of the infantry in 1936, colonel general in 1939 and field marshal general on 19 July 1940.

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