Paulus was the most famous German prisoner of World War II, and he lost the Battle of Stalingrad, causing heavy losses to the German army. Paulus's origin is very interesting, he is the son of a small clerk, his wife is still a Romanian nobleman who is despised by the Junker aristocracy, he is cautious and careful, he is a general that Hitler likes very much, but his subordinates and colleagues are junker aristocrats from the old Berlin Black Flag, which adds a lot of difficulties to his command operations, and he can be said to have been pit by a group of German officials N generation.
The arrogant Junker aristocracy was not too interested in the Nazis, so Hitler focused on promoting a group of generals of similar origins to himself, and Paulus was one of them. Hitler promoted Paulus from lieutenant general to general in 1942 within 11 months, and even planned to formally appoint Paulus as chief of staff after the Battle of Stalingrad, and Paulus became Hitler's chief spokesman in the German Army. Paulus was promoted quickly, and his men also concentrated many junkers who were eager for progress, such as Bismarck's great-grandson who served as a pilot in the Sixth Army and was captured at the Battle of Stalingrad. Of all the Junker nobles of Paulus, Cedric came from the best and most pitted, and Paulus could be said to have been miserable by him.
The Cedritz family was the top of the Junker nobility, and compared to his family, Manstein (Manstein's uncle was President Hindenburg, his biological father Edward Lewinsky was a second-class general of artillery, and his adoptive father was General George Manstein, a second-class infantryman), and the Bismarck family was an upstart. The ancestor of the Cedrits family was the famous cavalry general Friedrich Wilhelm von Sedllitz during the frederick the great period, and the old man defeated the famous French cavalry at the Battle of Rothbbach, winning great glory for the Prussian cavalry. The Cedrits family has been a famous junker since then, how long is the family's history of war? The era of his family's ancestors was exactly the year of the Qianlong expedition to Dzungar, the End of the Qing Dynasty, and his family continued to fight until the end of the Third Battle of Changsha in China (January 15, 1942), and Sedlitz continued the family's war cause.
From January 7 to May 20, 1942, Sedlitz commanded the German army in the Siege of Demyansk, becoming a great hero in saving the German army, and thus paying homage to the general. During World War II, the Germans also built the battlecruiser "Sejdlitz" and carried out Operation Sedlitz (July 1942), and it was in this atmosphere that General Sedlitz entered the Battlefield of Stalingrad.
It was also on the battlefield of Stalingrad that he pit paulus to death. Seeing that the Soviet encirclement was getting closer and closer, goering's promises did not work, and he was the top of the Junker nobles, and felt the need to change the entire battle plan. Around November 20 of that year, he publicly proposed that an army with 22 divisions "only carry out comprehensive defense work, without any right to move freely", which is "simply incredible". Seidlitz also believed that Hitler knew how to fight, and even Paulus was no more than an upstart in the army, and openly declared in the internal memorandum of the Sixth Army: "The supply operation is imminent, and there is every reason to ignore the orders to stay where they are." Sedlitz dared to do so, and on the night of 23 November he privately ordered the 51st Army (two mechanized divisions and an infantry division) to flash. Others retreated on the dark and windy night of the moon, lest the movement was too great, but the retreat of Sedlitz was an open fire, lest others not know, he ordered the burning of a large amount of food, clothing, ammunition and valuable fuel (at the end of the Battle of Stalingrad Paulus estimated that his tanks could only drive 20 kilometers, with the contribution of this benevolent brother), and took it upon himself to abandon the fortified position and retreat to the west.
The Soviets were not blind, and seeing that the open flames on the other side were about to leave, they directly used long-range artillery to "bid farewell" to the Sedlitz troops who had left the position. Sedlitz was not only not a good man, but suffered heavy losses. This incident greatly angered Hitler, insisting that his order to defend in situ was correct (at the end of the Battle of Moscow, hitler also advised the Germans to hold out on the spot, recovering a lot of losses), and forcing Paulus not to retreat without permission. Paulus did not dare to offend the Sedlitz family, which was very powerful in the army, and could only silently resist this result...
After the Battle of Stalingrad, Paulus was captured along with Junkers, including Seydlitz. The Sedlitz family ate the German Imperial Grain for more than two hundred years, betraying the glory of Germany more actively than Paulus, and he actively participated in the "German Officers' Union" and the "Free German National Council" organized by the Soviet Union, becoming a thorn in Hitler's eyes.