Kurt Zeitzler - Dismissal

Dismissal

After the annihilation of the Sixth army in Stalingrad Zeitzler's relations with Hitler became more and more strained. At the end of his tether after a series of violent rows with Hitler he abruptly left the Berghof on July 1, 1944. He had suffered a nervous breakdown. Hitler never spoke to him again and even had him dismissed from the Army in January 1945, refusing him the right to wear a uniform.

After the end of World War II, Zeitzler was a British POW until the end of February 1947. He died in 1963 in Hohenaschau in Upper Bavaria.