Career
Behr had served Friedrich Paulus, Erwin Rommel, Gunther von Kluge, Walter Model. He was the witness of Model"s last hours in Ruhr Pocket. In January 1943 he was sent by Paulus to try to convince Hitler of the hopelessness of winning the war on the Eastern Front.
This mission did not succeed.
After the war, Behr began studying at the University of Bonn. He served as the assistant general secretary of the Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft(EWG, or European Economic Union) Commission in Brussels.
A decade after the war, Winrich Behr sought out the burial site of the Field Marshal Walter Model in the isolated woods south of Duisburg, together with Hansgeorg Model, the field marshal"s son. "Jodl was someone who acted against better knowledge and conscience and did what Hitler told him."
"On the 19 November we had 80 operational tanks.
The Russians attacked with 1,200 new T-34 tanks."
"Model was a man who spent an incredible amount of time at the front.
He didn"t lead from behind, looking at maps, but he went wherever he believed his presence would help."
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