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The following is taken from the duplicate article Fritz Wachtler that has been proposed for speedy deletion redirected here. Can any of it be used here? I can't verify the information. Zujua (talk) 11:34, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Fritz Wachtler joined the Nazi party in 1926 and was appointed Thuringen Minister for the Interior in 1933. He stepped up the ladder of the Nazi hierarchy in 1935 to become Gauleiter of the Bayerische Ostmark with honorary status as an SS-Obergruppenfuhrer.

As the war entered its final stages in April 1945, Bayreuth, the seat of his Gau headquarters, had been bombed heavily and as American forces approached the city Wachtler secretly left the city with his staff, without letting Hitler know, to take up residence in the town of Waldmunchen, close to the Czech border. It appears that his deputy and rival, Ludwig Ruckdeschel, contacted Fuhrer Headquarters, and accused Wachtler of desertion. In the early morning of April 19, Ruckdeschel accompanied by 35 SS-men arrested Wachter, pronounced a death sentence and screaming "dirty treason", stood Wachtler up against a tree and had him shot. Ruckdeschel announced that Wachtler had been thrown out of the Nazi party and executed for cowardice although Wachtler had pleaded that he had moved his staff to organise resistance from Waldmunchen.
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The End - Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw