What ever happened to Von Manstein

Hey yall i was just wondering wat happened to Erich Von Manstein after the war.

 

He lived until 1973, here is a section of Actung Panzer that covered his life pretty well.

On March 30th of 1944, Erich von Manstein was dismissed by Adolf Hitler after the series of "heated" conferences over the situation and decisions made concerning the events on the Eastern Front. On the same day, von Manstein received the Swords to the Oak Leafs of the Knight's Cross. After his dismissal, Erich von Manstein entered the Breslau hospital's eye clinic followed by convalescence near Dresden andthen retired to his estate.Although, he did not take part in the attempt to kill Hitler on July 20th of 1944, he was aware of it. In late January of 1945, von Manstein collected his family members from their homes in Liegnitz (Legnica) and evacuated them to Celle in West Germany.In May of 1945, Erich von Manstein was arrested by the British and taken to POW camp in Luneberg and later to Nuremburg. In the Autumn of 1946, he was transferred to the special camp for high ranking officers in Great Britain and returned to Germany in the Summer of 1948. During the war crimes trial in August of 1949, Erich von Manstein was sentenced for 18 years of imprisonment but was released in 1952, because of his health condition. Erich von Manstein also successfully defended number of Wehrmacht officers charged with war crimes.

Afterwards, in 1956, he became an organizational advisor to the Bundeswehr, joined with Germany's wartime enemies to protect Western Europe from Soviet threat.Erich von Manstein lived with his family (including his son Rudiger) in Irschenhausen near Icking in the Isar valley in Bavaria (West Germany) until he died on June 10/11th of 1973. He was then buried in Dorfmark near Fallingbostel, north of Hannover. In 1955, he published his memoirs titled Lost Victories ("Verlorene Siege"), followed by From a Soldier's Life 1887-1939. ("Aus einem Soldatenleblen 1887-1939") in 1958.Overall, Erich von Manstein was one of the most talented German field commanders and mobile warfare strategists of World War II.
See:

Achtung Panzer! - Erich von Manstein!

The entire article is interesting to say the least.

 

Well he wrote a dreary book:
Lost Victories: War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General: Amazon.co.uk: Erich Von Manstein: Books
(Not recommended, almost unreadably turgid and reminds me of Shaggy singing 'It wasn't me' )

Other than that Wiki's page on him gives the raw details - Brief imprisonment - a period as a military adviser to the Bundeswehr and death in 1973:
Erich von Manstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Edit: - apologies, cross-posted with Clint above.

 

Well thats some pretty interesting information and very detailed in a very short time.thank you very much.

 

Hmm. And I thought all good German generals committed suicide. Must have been an interesting concept for hitler