1 POW camp in Grizedale Hall in the north of England from 9 August 1945 as a Political Intelligence Department lecturer taking part in the Re-education programme, in an effort to use that to re-establish his reputation as a military theorist and commentator, asked Guderian to say that he had based his military theories on Liddell Hart's Guderian obliged. On 1 October 1913, he married Margarete Goerne with whom he had two sons, Heinz Günther (2 August 1914 – 2004) and Kurt (17 September 1918 – 1984). Guderian was awarded a Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves on 17 July 1941.
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