My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

Wolfgang Preiss in the 1979 United States T. Jodl returned only to corroborate List's reports that the troops were at their last gasp. She died in Königsberg in the spring of 1944 from pneumonia contracted after major spinal surgery.

At Nuremberg he was tried sentenced to death and hanged as a war criminal although he was later exonerated by a German court.