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Originally Posted by Jim O
Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus was released in 1953, two years before many of the rest of the Stalingrad prisoners and became a Police Inspector in East Germany.
The fact that many officers returned to the DDR no doubt had much to do with their "re-education" while in Soviet hands. Paulus had become sympathetic to the "communist cause" by the time of his release.
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This sympathy was no doubt due to the realisation that he wouldn't be much welcomed on the west, for example after the war Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach refuse to help with the building of socialism in the DDR, he was sentenced to death, but his punishment was converted to life imprisoment, he was release and return to W. Germany in 1955, because of his actions after becoming a POW many of it's former comrades refuse to even speak with him.