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	Helmuth Weidling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General der Artillerie (General of the Artillery) Helmuth Weidling (November 2, 1891 – November 17, 1955) was a German Army officer and the last German commandant of Berlin during the final assault by Soviet forces just before the end of World War II in Europe.
		On 1 January 1942, Weidling was appointed to command the 86th Infantry Division and a month later was promoted to the rank of Major General.
		Weidling died on 17 November 1955, apparently in the custody of the KGB.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helmuth_Weidling (441 words)

	Third Reich.ca - Historical Collectables and Memorabilia
		On January 1, 1942, Helmuth Weidling was appointed to command the 86th Infantry Division and a month later was promoted to the rank of Major General and on January 1, 1943 he became a Lieutenant-General.
		On April 10, 1945 Weidling was relieved and appointed to the Führerreserve.
		General of the Artillery Weidling died in 1955 as a Soviet prisoner of war.
	www.thirdreich.ca /flatware5.php?section=gw (548 words)

	2 May 1945
		The German surrender is made by General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling, CO of LVI Panzer Korps, and last "Kampf-kommandant" of Berlin.
		With over 130,000 men surrendering in Berlin, later that day General Weidling was taken, together with Mohnke, Gunsche, and other survivors from the Bunker, to the airfield at Strausberg (where Zhukov had his field HQ), about 35 km east of the city, where the Russians had established a special holding camp for VIP prisoners.
		Weidling told him later that he had been taken to the Reichskanzlei where he was filmed coming out of one of the exits to the Voss Strasse from the cellars beneath the ruins of the Reichs Chancellery.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1945/05/02.htm (1008 words)

	WW2DB: Helmuth Weidling
		Helmuth Weidling was a colonel during the campaign in Poland in 1939 with the 56th Artillery Regiment, and climbed the rank ladder very quickly through his early victories in Poland, France, and Russia.
		He was promoted to the rank of a full general on 20 Oct 1943 after a steady series of promotions.
		Weidling was imprisoned in a Russian camp for the remainder of his life.
	ww2db.com /person_bio.php?person_id=197 (269 words)

	Reference Encyclopedia - Battle of Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hitler appointed General Helmuth Weidling defence commandant of Berlin.
		The forces available for the city's defence included several severely depleted Army and Waffen-SS divisions, supplemented by the police force, boys in the compulsory Hitler Youth, and the Volkssturm which consisted of elderly men, many of whom had been in the army as young men and some were veterans of World War I.
		General Weidling, defence commandant of Berlin, ordered the surrender of German defenders to the Soviets on May 2.
	referenceencyclopedia.com /?title=Battle_of_Berlin (3414 words)

	Informat.io on Downfall Film
		The scene then shifts to the heat of battle, where General Helmuth Weidling is accused of retreating to the west.
		Weidling is received by Heer Generals Hans Krebs and Wilhelm Burgdorf.
		Weidling suggests that they try to break through the encirclement and attempt to escape to make a last stand.
	www.vacilando.sk /?title=downfall-film-2 (6151 words)

	BUNKER
		Weidling came to the Führer Bunker to explain himself; he described the closeness of the Soviet troops.
		In the afternoons: Göring telegraphically asks whether - with the relocation of the military staff to the Obersalzberg - he - according the follow-up regulation of 1941 - also obtains the command over the troops if Hitler is unable to continue while the siege continues.
		With over 130,000 men surrendering in Berlin, later that day General Weidling was taken, together with Möhnke, Günsche, and other survivors from the Bunker, to the airfield at Strausberg (where Zhukov had his field HQ), about 35 km east of the city, where the Russians had established a special holding camp for VIP prisoners.
	greyfalcon.us /BUNKER.htm (8453 words)

	World War 2 Mini Quiz - Message Board - ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Fact says that on the 25th April 1945 the 56th Panzer Corps, lead by General Helmuth Weidling had been forced into Berlin and Hitler names Weidling as Commandant of the city, with all units in Berlin under his command.
		Weidling surrenders the city to the Russians on the 2nd May 1945.
		It is not!, its General Helmuth Weidling, the last Stat/Kampf-kommandant of Berlin.
	p090.ezboard.com /fjpspanzersfrm36.showMessage?topicID=536.topic (1149 words)

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		An order from Hitler had named General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the 56th Tank Corps(which was among the surrounded units), as commander of the defenses of Berlin.
		In view of the hopelessness and impossibility of further fighting, General Weidling, commander of the Berlin defenses, proposed to Hitler a plan for the city garrison to break out of the encirclement.
		Von Dueffing stated that they had been authorized by General Weidling, commander of the 56 Panzer Corps, to announce the cessation of resistance and the surren der of the corps.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/369Berlin.html (3480 words)

	Helmuth Weidling, Zeppelin Crewman [Archive] - The Aerodrome Forum
		Helmuth Weidling's final wartime rank was Oberleutnant (27.1.16 Q8q).
		How many airships did he served on is up to those who have Weidling's military service record from the beginning until 1945.
		28 September 2005, 01:39 PM I show Weidling (as a Ltn.) serving on the Z Sachsen from Jun15 to Sep15.
	www.theaerodrome.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-22167.html (196 words)

	WW2DB: Battle of Berlin
		On 23 Apr, Hitler named Helmuth Weidling the new commander of Berlin's defenses.
		Knowing the dire situation, Weidling's immediate response was "you might just as well have me shot" to the messenger, though he regained composure soon after and accepted the duty.
		At 0600 on Wednesday, 2 May 1945, Weidling crossed the front lines and officially surrendered the city to the Russians after a day of failed negotiations for a conditional surrender.
	ww2db.com /battle_spec.php?battle_id=43 (2429 words)

	[14.0] The Fall Of The Reich
		The following morning, 2 May, Lieutenant General Helmuth Weidling, who had been appointed commandant of Berlin a week earlier, went to Chuikov's headquarters and surrendered the city.
		In agreement with the high command of the Soviet forces, I demand that you stop the battle immediately.
		Weidling even recorded a message for Red Army sound trucks to shout at German units that continued to fight.
	www.vectorsite.net /twsnow_14.html (3995 words)

	Der Untergang/The Downfall (2004)
		General Helmuth Weidling (Michael Mendl) is first sentenced to death by Hitler for allegedly moving his command post without permission, and then appointed to command the final defense of Berlin.
		When told of his abrupt change in fortune, Weidling remarks that he would have rather been shot.
		There is also the hard-nosed SS General Wilhelm Mohnke (André Hennicke), a tough, ruthless soldier willing to fight to the end but who firmly disapproves of schoolboys being sent into combat.
	www.angelfire.com /film/eurowar/jesterdownfall.html (2066 words)

	Silver flatware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		All pieces are maker marked with the WELLNER name, single die hallmark, and "90" silver plate and pennyweight silver content.
		Helmuth Weidling was the commandant of the LXI Panzer Group in Berlin.
		He was captured by the Russians in 1945 and died in captivity in 1955.
	www.snyderstreasures.com /pages/silverware.htm (4793 words)

	Helmuth Weidling (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		''General der Artillerie'', Helmuth Weidling (November 2, 1891 – November 17, 1955), was the German commandant of Berlin during the final assault by Soviet forces just before the end of World War II in Europe.
		He was ordered not to surrender but to fight to the last man. After Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, General Weidling surrendered the city to the Soviets on May 2.
		Category:1891 births Category:1955 deaths Category:German generals de:Helmuth Weidling
	helmuth-weidling.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (306 words)

	"Lair of the fascist beast" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nevertheless, there were a few brave souls who were prepared to risk everything to defy Hitler, and many of them were in Berlin.
		At 6.00 am on 2 May, the military commander, Lieutenant-General Helmuth Weidling, officially surrendered the city.
		It would be a further six days before the rest of Germany capitulated, but for Berlin, the war was over.
	mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/berlin/lectures/18LairofBeast.html (5467 words)

	Amazon.com: Downfall: DVD: Oliver Hirschbiegel,Bruno Ganz,Alexandra Maria Lara,Corinna Harfouch,Ulrich Matthes,Juliane ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		All of the major and minor players familiar to students of the period are represented: Joseph and Magda Goebbels and their offspring, Eva Braun, Speer, Fegelein, Weidling, Mohnke, Himmler, Krebs, Burgdorf, Keitel, Jodl, Gnsche, Bormann, Gring, Hewel, Ritter von Greim, Reitsch, Stumpfegger, Kempa, Manziarly, Christian, Haase, Schenck, Linge, and Blondi (Hitler's German shepherd).
		Werner Haase, Michael Mendl as General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling, André Hennicke as SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke, Ulrich Noethen as Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Alexandra Maria Lara as Traudl Junge, Corinna Harfouch as Magda Goebbels, Ulrich Matthes as Joseph Goebbels, Juliane Köhler as Eva Braun, Heino Ferch as Albert Speer, Christian Berkel as Prof.
		Werner Haase, Thomas Kretschmann as SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, Michael Mendl as General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling...
	www.amazon.com /Downfall-Oliver-Hirschbiegel/dp/B000AABEKA (3534 words)

	Battle for Berlin: April — May 1945
		The exact manner of their deaths and what happened immediately afterwards has always been something historians have argued over, but the general consensus being that Hitler shot himself and Eva Braun took poison, their bodies being hastily cremated just outside the bunker.
		Goebbels followed suit on the 1 May and Weidling drafted an order for the remainder of the garrison to lay down its arms on the morning of 2 May 1945, and signalled such to Col Gen V. Chuikov.
		A number of refugee groups, including both civilian and military personnel managed to break out and flee westwards, but at 15.00 the Soviet artillery stopped firing, the sudden silence as they say, was deafening.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/battles_berlin.html (4212 words)

	German tanks in Berlin - Armchair General Forums
		If you got any information on quantity numbers, that would also be welcome.
		Berlin was defended by the units commanded by an army corps(the 56pz corps) under command of General Der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling.
		So what armor(not that i say armor) there would have been would probaly been a mix of PZ IV and Panthers and whatever the germans would have scraped together from the repair shacks.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /forums/showthread.php?t=41613 (948 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of Downfall
		With his officers, Hitler insists that he has troops that can cut off the Russian offense, but they know these units can barely defend themselves.
		With wonderful archness, General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling (Michael Mendl, "Amen") reports to the bunker to be shot for retreating and finds himself instead given command of Berlin's defense - 'I would rather have been shot than be given such an honor,' he responds.
		Hitler insists that no one will surrender as Nazi MPs above ground shoot old men for failing to defend the demolished city.
	www.reelingreviews.com /downfall.htm (1660 words)

	Schreiber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Birthdays and events of living persons have been excluded
		Father: Heinrich Kurt Weidling Mother: Agnes Katharina Helene Jungverdorben
		Festschrift zur Feier des hundertjährigen Bestehens der Firma I.C. FRESE & CO in Hamburg am 1.
	www.catsch.com /schreiber/fam00130.html (71 words)

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		Hitler won't consider this and architect Albert Speer (Heino Ferch, "Run Lola Run") pleases the Führer with his infamous advice, “You must be on the stage when the curtain falls.”
		General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling (Michael Mendl, "Amen") reports to the bunker to be shot for retreating and finds himself instead given command of Berlin's defense — “I would rather have been shot than be given such an honor,” he responds.
		The closer the Russian troops get to the bunker, the more bizarre Germany’s situation becomes.
	www.reviewedmovies.com /review.php?reviewID=1918 (1510 words)

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