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The Order to Exterminate: Would You Have Written It?
A general is stripped of his dignity before execution-what would you sacrifice when your system demands you become someone else?
The Order to Exterminate: Would You Have Written It?
This episode explores the life of Erich Hoepner, a German general whose choices reveal the complex moral compromises made within a totalitarian regime. It asks what happens when a person keeps saying yes to one more thing, and what it costs when they finally say no.
Person: Erich Hoepner
Date of Execution: August 8, 1944
Location: Plötzensee Prison, Berlin
Military Rank: Generaloberst
- Erich Hoepner was hanged in…
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