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Wilhelm Adam (28 March 1893 – 24 November 1978) was an officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Following the German surrender after the Battle of Stalingrad, he became a member of the National Committee for a Free Germany. Adam later served in the National People's Army of East Germany.
Concerning the war, Adam states, "That the Second World War started by Hitler's Germany was a crime not only against the peoples attacked by us, but also against the German nation, did not occur to us. And because of this, we did not recognize the deeper reasons for the defeat on the Volga, superiority of the socialist state and social system, whose sharp sword was the Soviet army."
In 1952, Adam became a colonel in the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (KVP) ("Barracked People's Police"), the forerunner of the East German National People's Army. From 1953 to 1956 he was commander of the Officers' College of the KVP – and later became the National People's Army. In 1958, Adam was sent into retirement. He kept on working, though, for the Working Group of Former Officers. In 1968 he was decorated with the Banner of Labor, and on the occasion of the twenty-eighth anniversary of East Germany's founding on 7 October 1977, he was appointed major general, retired in the East German Army.
Adam died on 24 November 1978 in Dresden.
Post-war period
In 1948, Adam returned to Germany, specifically to what had become the Soviet occupation zone in Germany. He was among the co-founders of the National Democratic Party of Germany, an East German political party that acted as an organization for former members of the Nazi Party and the Wehrmacht. From 1948 to 1949 he worked as a consultant for the Saxony state government. From 1950 to 1952 he was Saxony's finance minister and from 1949 to 1963 a member of East Germany's Volkskammer.
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(1987). 9783764811532, Biblio-Verlag. ISBN 9783764811532
Categories: 1893 Births, 1978 Deaths, People From Nidderau, Politicians From Hesse-nassau, German People's Party Politicians, National Democratic Party Of Germany Politicians, Members Of The Provisional Volkskammer, Members Of The 1st Volkskammer, Members Of The 2nd Volkskammer, Members Of The 3rd Volkskammer, Major Generals Of The National People's Army, German Army Personnel Of World War I, Stahlhelm Members, Sturmabteilung Personnel, Nazis Who Participated In The Beer Hall Putsch, German Military Personnel Of World War Ii, People Condemned By Nazi Courts In Absentia, National Committee For A Free Germany Members, Recipients Of The Knight's Cross Of The Iron Cross, Recipients Of The Patriotic Order Of Merit, Recipients Of The Banner Of Labor
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