Haase, Curt, born 15-12-1881in Bad Honnef, 
German Empire in 1901, joined the 4th Württemberg Field Artillery Regiment No. 65 of the Württemberg Army in Ludwigsburg and was promoted to the rank of Leutnant in 1902. In 1905 he was an adjutant of the 1st Division and eventually achieved the rank of Leutnant in 1910. From 1911 to 1914 Haase commanded a training regiment in the Prussian Staff College. At the outbreak of the First World War Haase commanded a company. He was promoted to Hauptman in 1914 and served in various staff positions for the rest of the war. After the war, Haase joined the Reichswehr. 
Haase became commander of III Corps 
on 16-11-1938. At the beginning of World War II, he commanded the III Corps in the Invasion of Poland and the Battle of France. On 15-05-1940 Haase’s corps broke through the French defensive positions at Charleville-Mézières,
for which he received the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross 
on 08-06-1940. Haase (right) with Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben
was promoted to Generaloberst on 19-07-1940 and in mid-November 1940, he was relieved of his command and reassigned to the Führer-Reserve. Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben involved in the 20 July bomb attack on Hitler 
.was put to death at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin 
.Plötzensee is a prison in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The prison was built between 1868 and 1879 and, after the takeover of the National Socialists in 1933, had an important function as a prison and as a central execution site for political opponents of the Nazi regime. Between 1933 and 1945, 2,891 people were put to death in Plötzensee, including members of the Rote Kapelle and of the plot of 20-07-1944 
against Adolf Hitler. The Plötzense Monument was erected in 1952. About half of the 2,891 executed were German, most of whom were sentenced to death for resistance to the Nazi regime. Among them were members of the Rote Kapelle, the plot of July 20, 1944 and the Kreisau Circle. 677 people were executed from Czechoslovakia, 253 from Poland and 245 from France. The number of female victims was 300.
By Hitler’s direct orders, Haase was hanged with a thin hemp rope, which people who were not from the prison staff called a piano wire, wound around a meat hook, and the execution was filmed. The footage has since been lost. The entire event was filmed and Hitler had the recordings shown to him in the Berghof that evening
Haase attending Wilhelm II’s funeral with Arthur Seyss-Inquart
and August von Mackensen.
On 04-06-1941 he attended the funeral of German Emperor Wilhelm II
at Doorn Manor in the Netherlands as a representative of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
Death and burial ground of Haase, Curt.
From early 1941 to December 1942 Haase commanded the 15th Army deployed in France, during that period the army was tasked with the protection of the Channel coast from a possible Allied invasion. He was transferred again to the Führer-Reserve 
for the remainder of his career and died on 09-02-1943 at the age of 61 of heart disease.
General Curt Haase, 
here with SS General Sepp Dietrich 
was buried on the Invaliden Cemetery in Berlin. After the war, the Allies, special the Russians, ordered that all Nazi monuments (including those in cemeteries) should be removed, and this resulted in the removal of the grave-markers of Reinhard Heydrich 
and Fritz Todt,
and orther, although their remains were not disinterred. Later a wall was build between East and West Berlin right through the cemetery and on Russian side all grave-marks destroyed. In the later years new grave-marks were re-established of different Generals and well known.
Fritz Todt age 50, was killed in February 1942 near Rastenburg when his aircraft crashed 
shortly after take-off. He was succeeded as Reichsminister and head of the OT by Albert Speer. 
Albert Speer who had at the last moment cancelled flying on the same plane as Todt, mysterious, was appointed to succeed him. Reynard Heydrich age 38, was attacked by assassins in Prague on 27-05-1942 
and died over a week later on June 4th from complications arising from his injuries.
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