Walter Heitz
- Category : 1878-births
- Type : ME
- Profile : 5/1 - Heretical / Investigator
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Separation 2
Biography
German general (Generaloberst) in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He commanded the VIII Army Corps on the Western and Eastern Fronts. Heitz was a staunch supporter of Nazism and Hitler.
During the Battle of Stalingrad, as the situation worsened for the Germans, he coined the slogan: "We fight to the last bullet but one." He ordered defeatists and every man who attempted surrender to be shot.
Heitz surrendered the central pocket of German forces in Stalingrad on 31 January 1943 and died of cancer as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union on 9 February 1944.