Ernst Alexander Paulus

Ernst Alexander, a captain, was wounded at Stalingrad and apparently was flown out of the Kessel before its fall, because he was arrested in 1944 by the Gestapo after his father started to cooperate with the Soviets. He survived the war. In the spring of 1944 his Romanian mother, Elena, who never trusted the Nazis, was told by the Gestapo that she could save her life if she would renounce her husband’s name, but she full of disdain turned her back to them. She was arrested and landed in some camp. After the war, Ernst and his mother lived in Western Germany. He made a family and took care of his mother, who never recovered from the loss of her beloved husband. She died in 1949. Ernst committed suicide in 1970. He was 52, same age as his father, when he surrendered with his 6th Army in Stalingrad.