Nazi General Committed High Treason To Stop The Reign of Terror in Croatia

BELGRADE - Many heroes' names line the pages of WWII history. Many of these men and women were not recognized and known to the public during their lifetimes - some were secret agents, some worked within underground resistance groups, and some conducted their plans hidden in plain sight, writes warhistoryonline.com.

One man in particular fought back from within the Nazi Party, reporting its atrocities and plotting to bring them down from the inside. That man was Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, a general within the Austrian military and respected Nazi leader.

Though so many of his fellow Nazis facilitated the concentration camps and various other horrors conducted during the war, Glaise-Horstenau did not - he wanted the reign of terror to end, even if he had to die to make this dream a reality.

Edmund Glaise-Horstenau didn't spend much of his life as a civilian before...