In 1949, he was tried in Hamburg for war crimes and was convicted of "neglecting to protect civilian lives" and using scorched earth tactics which denied vital food supplies to the local population. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison, later reduced to 12, but he only served 4 years before being released. After release from a British prison in 1953, he became a military advisor to the West German Government. His memoirs largely contributed to the myth of a "clean Wehrmacht", and only later after his death Manstein's involvement in atrocities at the Eastern Front during the war became more prominent.
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