00:00While Schörner, also known as Bloody Ferdinand, had soldiers who were involuntarily separated
00:05from their units, summarily sentenced to death, at the end of the war, he himself deserted
00:10his troops in civilian clothes to avoid falling into Soviet captivity.
00:15After the war, he was initially held in American captivity, then handed over to the Soviet
00:21Union, where he was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor.
00:25With one of the last transports, he returned to Germany in 1955, and in 1957 was sentenced
00:33to four and a half years in prison for manslaughter at Landsberg am Leck prison.
00:39At the same time, all pension rights were revoked.
00:43He was then released early from prison in August 1960 for health reasons.
00:48The last living former German field marshal of the army, and by far the most controversial,
00:55died on the 2nd, July 1973 in Munich, at the age of 81.
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