General Walther Buhle (26 October 1894 – 28 December 1959) was an infantryGeneral in the German army who was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht from 1942 and chief of armaments for the army in 1945.[1]
He was badly injured and hospitalised in 1944 by the 20 July plot bomb planted by von Stauffenberg at the Wolf's Lair headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia. He entered the conference room with von Stauffenberg and when a point was raised that von Stauffenberg might have been expected to answer, Buhle was perplexed that he was no longer present and looked for him in the corridor. A telephonist said he had left the building so he returned to the conference.
Buhle recovered from his injuries and in the last days of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler appointed him chief of armaments for the army. After the war, he was a POW at Camp Ritchie in Maryland and was involved with the Hill Project, an effort to use German POWs to translate texts to better understand military efforts of the Nazi regime following the end of the war.[2] Following his return, he was imprisoned until June 1947, he then lived in Stuttgart where he died aged 65.
