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      Why even link the articles when the man in question is not mentioned in any of them?

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      Nobody’s disagreeing that he worked for the military, they’re just saying he wasn’t the leader of the nazis.

      Who’s spreading disinformation, when you’re making up new titles like “Hitler’s chief of staff” and “Chairman of NATO” about a person who’s been dead for 40 years?

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        Provide links. I did!

        Heusinger served as inspector general until 1961, when appointed chairman of NATO’s Military Committee—the organization’s senior military officer and chief military adviser to the secretary general. Source

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          I think people are mostly criticising your choice of words, The chairman of the NATO military committee does not equate to the chief of NATO. And simply labeling him as “chief of staff” implies that he was part of the executive, and not a military commander.

          I could more accurately claim that Hitlers “chief of staff” Vincenz Müller became the Commander of the Soviet East German military. At least half of that statement is actually true.

          There is no reason to participate in historical revisionism. We are still fighting against the"clean Wehrmacht" theory. Misrepresenting the white washing that’s already occurred just gives ammunition to those perpetuating it.

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      I don’t understand what you’re trying to imply here. He was a senior military leader prior to Hitler’s assassination attempt, of course he participated in planning military operations.

      But hey, nice example of disinformation.

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          I think neither your quote nor the text under the link show that. Can you elaborate?

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            Sure.

            A declassified CIA document about the general – which was made public in 2006 thanks to the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act – assures that he could have been involved in war crimes, since some of the orders he signed sealed the fate of several Russian political prisoners and allied commanders. Source