00:00On March 30, 1944, after increasingly frequent disagreements with Hitler's conduct of the war,
00:07von Manstein was finally transferred to the Führer Reserve.
00:11Then, however, in 1949 by then, back in prison in Verl,
00:17the British judiciary had initiated a new trial against him,
00:21and Manstein was sentenced to 18 years in Verl prison.
00:26But then, in May 1953, he was released from prison for health reasons,
00:33when the former field marshal on the 24th, November 1967, his 80th.
00:40When he turned 80, the then Inspector General, General Ulrich de Maizière,
00:47honored him at the Memorial Grove on the grounds of the Armored Troops School in Munster,
00:52and at Manstein's burial after his passing on June 10, 1973,
00:59the Bundeswehr granted him all military honors.
01:03However, to this day, they have neither named a barracks after him nor mentioned him in any other way.
01:11But wasn't that a double standard?
01:14From 1937, Husinger served in the Operations Department of the General Staff
01:20at the Army High Command in Berlin.
01:24And from the 15th, October 1940, he became the head of this department,
01:29which was responsible for the strategic and operational command of the Army units.
01:34Husinger was involved in virtually all operational planning during the war,
01:39against Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, and finally in 1941,
01:45also against the Soviet Union and the summer offensive of 1942, Operation Blue.
01:52But if you objectively look at his career at the Fuhrer headquarters,
01:56you have to ask yourself, since he never spent a day at the front,
02:01whether he should be judged in the same way as Manstein.
02:05Because the events he helped plan had made all of this possible in the first place,
02:10for which a number of German generals were either executed after the war,
02:15or, like Manstein, sentenced to long prison terms,
02:19or later banned from any public office in West Germany.
02:24In contrast, as a co-initiator of the operations and always an obedient follower of orders,
02:30he had already regained significant influence over planning at the blank office since 1952.
02:37He later held the highest positions in the Bundeswehr and NATO,
02:42eventually even serving as a member of the NATO Military Committee in Washington.
02:46He later held the famous
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