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A Reader has queries, Monday, January 19, 2004, about the ultimate fate of the last commandant of Berlin in April 1945
What was the real fate of General Weidling?
THERE is very little information available about the last ten years of life of General Weidling, who surrendered the Berlin garrison to the Soviets at the very end, in May 1945.
Weidling reportedly "died in captivity" in 1955, coincidentally the same year that West German leader Konrad Adenauer negotiated the final release from the Soviet Union of all known living German POW's from WWII.
One wonders how many other German POW's conveniently died in 1955 rather than being freed by the Soviets. Will not today's Russian government -- no longer Soviet -- "come clean" on this historical subject?
Unavoidable is the conclusion that of Weidling's four options on that fateful day in Berlin -- to commit suicide, to attempt a breakout, to die fighting, or to surrender to the Soviets -- he chose the worst possible option for himself!
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