Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben (4 December 1881 – 8 August 1944) was a German officer, by 1940 in the rank of Generalfeldmarschall (General Field Marshal), and army commander in the Second World War. A leading conspirator in the 20 July plot,he was designated to become Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht in a post-Nazi regime had the plot succeeded.Witzleben was put to death that same day of trial at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin On 7 August 1944 By Hitler's direct orders, he was hanged with a thin hemp rope (which people who were not from the prison staff called a piano wire wound around a meat hook, and the execution was filmed.The footage has since been lost.During the trial, he stated.... You may handover us to the executioner today, but with in three months, the people will drag you out on the dirt in the streets.
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