Josef Ritter von Gadolla - Der Retter von Gotha
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He saved the German city of Gotha from being wiped out by Allied troops and thereby saved thousands of people's lives. In the last weeks before the end of World War II, when the rest of the German Empire was surrounded and captured by the Allies on all sides, the fate of the cities also lay in the hands of the responsible commanders. The Austrian Josef Ritter von Gadolla, as the combat commander of Gotha at the time, resisted Hitler's so-called "Nero orders", namely to expand the cities into fortresses and to hold them at all costs, which led to the complete destruction of Gotha, a city that also had many thousands of refugees housed, would have led.