Von Witzleben on Trial in Berlin

Erwin von Witzleben, Army Field Marshal, born on December 4, 1881 in Berlin, winner of the Iron Cross 1st Class in World War I, commander of the 1st Army, Army Group D and Commander-in-Chief West, winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, member of the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, sentenced to death by the People’s Court, executed by hanging on August 8, 1944 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, on Adolf Hitler: “I never liked the fellow.” (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)

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Tiger I

SS-Sturmmann Paul Jadzewski was born December 4, 1921 at Braunnitz near Tuchel in West Prussia.  A Catholic, he could speak Polish and joined the Waffen-SS on January 1, 1941, with SS number 386316; he stood just over 5’6” tall.  He served in a tank at Kharkov in February-March 1943, receiving the Panzer Battle Badge in Silver on March 29, 1943.  At Kursk, Paul served as a loader on S22.  He won the Iron Cross Second Class on August 20, 1943.  In the spring of 1944, SS-Sturmmann Jadzewski was assigned as a loader in the 1st Company of the 102nd SS Heavy Panzer Detachment.  In 1945 he was assigned to the 1st Company of the 502nd SS Heavy Panzer Detachment as a loader on a King Tiger.  (Waffen-SS Tiger Crews at Kursk: The Men of SS Panzer Regiments 1, 2 & 3 in Operation Citadel, July 5-15, 1943)