Talk:Alexander von Falkenhausen
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The articel gives only an elusive overfiew of his career and is lacking in some important points.
Some examples:
Born as noble, he wanted to become a discoverer but got sacked out of school and then joined a cadet college. So he actually started his military career in the age of 12.
He served in the 91th Infantry Regiment in Oldenburg under Otto von Hindenburg, but was bored of his job and even played with the thought of joining into US american military service to fight in the spanish-american war. But because of his connections, he got the opportunity to serve within the german troops, who were send to China because of the boxer rebellion.
When he came back he was deployed to the grand general staff in Berlin, and started to learn japanese and analysed the japanese sphere of control in east asia. After that, he was deployed to tokio for 2 years to study the military facilities and after that as military attaché until the first world war breaked out.
He ain´t retired from service in 1930, he was dismissed out of the army because he was under suspicion of nationalsocialst procedures, of which he in fact, wasn´t involved. After that he joined the "Stahlhelm", a paramilitary-like Freikorps which were quite common at these desolate times in Germany but after the nazi´s started to gain political power, the Stahlhelm was integrated into the SA in 1934. Von Falkenhausen was against this step of integration and retired to join the german military mission in China. Between 1911 and 1941, Germany and China had some very close relations, which even peaked in an alliance between both with the results of the modernisation of the chinese industry and military (the Sino-German cooperation). He fought quite well with his troops against the japanese until 1938, when Joachim von Ribbentrop, the german foreign minister, forced him under menace of familial reprisals to return to Germany, because Hitler looked forward for Japan as an Ally in the anti-comintern pact. There were also some other famous germans acting at that time in China like John Rabe for example, who returned to germany after the nanjing massacre.
[edit] Sentence
The article states that von Falkenhausen was sentenced to 12 years and then acquitted 3 weeks into fulfilling his sentence. If he was sentenced, he wasn't acquitted. The sentence was reversed or commuted.
Also, there is IIRC a semi-famous story that when he was released, von Falkenhausen left an angry note criticizing the Belgians for imprisoning him after he had done so much to try to save them from Nazi depredations. This seems like something worth including if it can be properly sourced. Airbornelawyer 07:09, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
