People & Politics | Third Reich Traitors Want Rehabilitation

DW (English) 2009-07-31

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64 years after the end of World War Two,a group of Wehrmacht soldiers condemned as 'traitors' to Germany are hoping for rehabilitation.30,000 soldiers with Germany's armed forces were given death sentences and 20,000 were actually executed after they were found guilty of treason by Nazi Germany's military courts. The surviving soldiers have never been rehabilitated,and a initiative wants to see their sentences overturned.

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