Siegfried Westphal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Siegfried Westphal

German General and Knight's Cross recipient

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1902

Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany

Date of Death: 02-Jul-1982

Profession: military personnel, non-fiction writer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Siegfried Westphal (18 March 1902 – 2 July 1982) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
He served as operations officer under Rommel and chief of staff under Kesselring and Rundstedt.
He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Westphal surrendered to the American troops in May 1945 and acted as a witness at the Nuremberg Trials.
He was released in 1947.
He wrote a book The German Army in the West which was published in 1952.
He appears in a number of interview segments of The World at War.