 He may have been influenced in this by the knowledge gained from his brother, a doctor, that the Nazis had murdered at least 100,000 mentally ill patients.In the end, however, he took no part in the plot, and would certainly not have been placed in command of Le Havre had Hitler suspected him.At Trent Park, he and other captured officers were invited by the British in early 1945 to call publicly on the Wehrmacht to surrender.