On 15 January 1955 ex Generalfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner was released from Soviet captivity and sent to East Berlin with Vizeadmiral Hans-Erich Voß in a special compartment. While he was still on the platform, he gave a speech (which record kept in the GDR archives until after the fall of communism). A delegation with Generals Lattmann, Arthur Brandt (Luftwaffe) and Haehling received him. The attempt to persuade him to stay in the GDR (possibly as Generalinspekteur of the People's Army) failed, and he traveled on to Münich via Hof (his wife and eldest son had already committed suicide in 1949). This picture was taken on the evening of 28 January 1955 and it shows Schörner with his remaining children.
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