Remember General Weidling for example from the Downfall movie:

On 22 April, German dictator Adolf Hitler ordered that Weidling be executed by firing squad. Hitler believed that, as commander of the LVI Panzer Corps, Weidling had ordered his corps to retreat from the advancing Soviet forces. Ordering a retreat would be in defiance of Hitler's standing orders to the contrary. As such, Weidling's actions required a death sentence. But, there turned out to be a misunderstanding and the situation was cleared up before Weidling's execution took place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_Weidling

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From Tony Le Tissier " Slaughter at Halbe "

General Weidling told that General Busse had threatened to have him shot if he failed to link up with the 9th Army, and that Hitler threatened him with the same fate if he did not go to the defence of the city...

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Interesting days those...

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