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	Biographie: Ewald von Kleist, 1881-1954
		August: Ewald von Kleist wird als Sohn des Geheimen Studienrats Christof Hugo von Kleist in Braunfeld an der Lahn geboren.
		In den Kesselschlachten von Uman und Kiew macht die "Panzergruppe Kleist" gemeinsam mit der Panzergruppe von Heinz Guderian rund 650.000 Kriegsgefangene und erbeutet über 800 sowjetische Panzer.
		Kleist wird in Jugoslawien als Kriegsverbrecher zu 15 Jahren Haft verurteilt.
	www.dhm.de /lemo/html/biografien/KleistEwald/index.html (311 words)

	Ewald Christian von Kleist Summary
		Ewald Christian von Kleist was born around 7 March 1715 in Zeblin, Pomerania (now Poland), to Joachim Ewald von Kleist and Juliane von Kleist, née von Manteuffel; the famous playwright Heinrich von Kleist, born some sixty years later, was a distant relative.
		Kleist studied law in Königsberg from 1731 to 1735; he was also well read in the classical literatures, which were to serve as a model for many aspects of his works.
		Ewald Christian von Kleist was born at Zeblin, near Köslin in Pomerania, to a famous family of cavalry leaders.
	www.bookrags.com /Ewald_Christian_von_Kleist (1384 words)

	Ewald Christian von Kleist - LoveToKnow 1911
		EWALD CHRISTIAN VON KLEIST (1715-1759), German poet, was born at Zeblin, near Koslin in Pomerania, on the 7th of March 1715.
		Kleist's chief work is a poem in hexameters, Der Frilhling (1749), for which Thomson's Seasons largely supplied ideas.
		Kleist published in 1756 the first collection of his Gedichte, which was followed by a second in 1758.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ewald_Christian_von_Kleist (319 words)

	Ewald von Kleist
		Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist was born in August 1881 in the town of Braunfells, in the Hesse area of Germany.
		Kleist's Group reached and crossed the Meuse River near Sedan on the 13th of May, forcing a breach between the French 2nd and 9th Armies.
		By the 5th of November, Kleist's advance ran out of momentum, beset by a shortage of fuel and a steady drain of manpower, as units were withdrawn to assist in the drive on Stalingrad.
	www.theeasternfront.co.uk /Commanders/german/kleist.htm (1482 words)

	Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist Information
		Born into an aristocratic family, von Kleist was educated in a German military school and served as a lieutenant of hussars and a regimental commander in World War I.
		In 1942 von Kleist was sent to command troops in the Caucasus in order to capture important oil wells in the area.
		Von Kleist was captured by United States forces in 1945.
	www.bookrags.com /Paul_Ludwig_Ewald_von_Kleist (332 words)

	Kleist
		Von Kleist was a member of Prussian administrative squirearchy (or gentry), but was said to be seeking the ignition of spirits by sparks when involved with electricity.
		Von Kleist had erred, however, by thinking that the flares or sparks were proportional to the mass of the materials being electrified (greater the spark or schlag would be with the larger prime conductors of electrical machines).
		In November 1745, Ewald von Kleist, a German clergyman and scientist, and in January 1746 Petrus van Musschenbroek, a Dutch professor, discovered the magical condenser.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/kleist.html (1285 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: von Kleist, Ewald Christian
		Ewald Jurgens (George) von Kleist (born in Prussian Pomerania 1700, died in Koslin, now Koszaln, Poland, on 11 December 1748) (2) was the son of a Prussian district magistrate.
		Von Kleist was a member of Prussian administrative squirearchy, (2) (or gentry) but was said to be seeking the ignition of spirits by sparks when involved with electricity.
		Von Kleist apparently was also stimulated by Bose, and so made his own electrical machine to play with like everyone else.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/VON_KLEIST_BIO.html (1991 words)

	GDW - Biographien
		Attorney and estate owner Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin is a supporter of the German National People's Party and advocates a monarchistic and Christian ideal of conservatism.
		Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin travels to London in 1938 representing Colonel-General Ludwig Beck and Admiral Canaris to inform the British government of the existence of a German opposition to Hitler.
		Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin is arrested on July 21, 1944, after the coup fails.
	www.gdw-berlin.de /bio/ausgabe_mit-e.php?id=45 (279 words)

	Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist - Definition, explanation
		Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (August 8 1881 - circa November 13 1954) was a leading German Field Marshal during World War II.
		Born into an aristocratic family in Braunfels an der Lahn, von Kleist was educated in a German military school and served as a lieutenant of hussars and a regimental commander in World War I.
		In the Battle of France he commanded Panzergruppe von Kleist, consisting of XLI and XIX Panzer Corps, the two southernmost armoured corps in the drive to the English Channel.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pa/paul_ludwig_ewald_von_kleist.php (338 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		von Kleist was stationed and his assignment was such that he would be the first to greet the Fuehrer as he descended from his aircraft.
		von Kleist survived the war, although he was arrested and tortured because he had known von Stauffenberg and others, mainly fellow aristocrats, involved in the later plot to kill Hitler.
		At the time that Ewald von Kleist was waiting for Hitler's plane, Jeannie, then all of 22, was using forged papers and flawless German to penetrate the Wachtel Group, responsible for the V-2 missile, and give British Intelligence its first information about the V-2 development.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110003109 (1064 words)

	Germany Info: Government & Politics
		Baron Ewald Heinrich von Kleist, a participant in the July 20, 1944, assassination plot against Adolf Hitler and founder in 1962 of the Munich “Wehrkundetagung,” now the International Conference on Security Policy, was the guest of honor at a dinner given by Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger and his wife on June 22 in Washington, DC.
		In January 1944, Baron von Kleist, on the urging of his father, volunteered for a suicide assassination attempt in which von Kleist was to model a new uniform for Hitler and would have hidden grenades inside his coat and then thrown himself on Hitler.
		Baron von Kleist is one of those interviewed in the 1992 Oscar-nominated documentary “The Restless Conscience,” a film about a small group of individuals who opposed the Nazi regime in Germany.
	www.germany.info /relaunch/politics/new/pol_von_kleist_2004.html (540 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ewald Christian von Kleist (March 7, 1715 – August 24, 1759) was a German poet and officer.
		Kleist was born at Zeblin, near Köslin in Pomerania, to a famous family of cavalry leaders.
		Shortly afterwards in the battle of Kunersdorf, on August 12, 1759, he was mortally wounded in the forefront of the attack, and died at Frankfurt (Oder) on the 24 August 1759.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Ewald_Christian_von_Kleist (418 words)

	Paul Ludwig Ewald Von Kleist Encyclopedia Information @ GreatArtworks.com (Great Artworks) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born into an aristocratic family, von Kleist was educated in a German military school and served as a lieutenant of hussars and a regimental commander in World War I.
		In the Battle of France he commanded Panzergruppe von Kleist, consisting of XLI and XIX (under Guderian) Panzer Corps, the two southernmost armoured corps in the drive to the English Channel.
		In 1942 von Kleist was sent to command troops in the Caucasus in order to capture important oil wells in the area.
	www.greatartworks.com /encyclopedia/Paul_Ludwig_Ewald_von_Kleist (1121 words)

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		Ewald von Kleist and the Invention of Masculinity
		Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715-1759) was a Prussian officer and an acclaimed poet.
		Kleist moved in a few years from sweet anacreontic poetry that included scathing words for military heroism to propagating the death for the fatherland.
	www.geocities.com /drgratzke/aberdeen.html (288 words)

	Jane Pejsa: Mit dem Mut einer Frau (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gräfin von Zedlitz und Trützschler (1867-1945), einer geistig ungewöhnlich lebendigen und selbständigen Frau, die in Umbruchzeiten lebte, von einer jahrhundertelangen Lebensform und Standesethik geprägt war, aber auch die Herausforderungen der Moderne sah und beide zu vereinen suchte, handelt dieses Buch.
		Der Wechsel von den reichen schlesischen Gütern zu den bescheideneren, oft verschuldeten Landsitzen in Pommern, aus denen Jürgen von Kleist stammte, war für die junge Frau zunächst enttäuschend.
		Nach der deutschen Niederlage von Stalingrad erklärte sich Ruths Neffe, Oberst Henning von Tresckow, der unter den Generälen um Verbündete gegen Hitler warb, bereit, den Führer umzubringen.Auch Fabian von Schlabrendorff und Ewald Heinrich von Kleist, der Sohn Ewald von Kleists, stellten sich zur Verfügung.
	www.berlin-ehrungen.de /Lesezei/Blz00_05/text18.htm (1587 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (22 March 1890 – 9 April 1945) was a lawyer, a conservative politician, and the owner of an estate in Pomerania, northeast of Berlin.
		Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin went to the United Kingdom in 1938 as Admiral Wilhelm Canaris’s and Colonel-General Ludwig Beck’s secret emissary.
		He urged his son, Lieutenant Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, to go through with a suicide-assassination plot in January 1944 which would have seen him blow himself and the Führer up with two hand grenades hidden under a new uniform that he was to “demonstrate” to Hitler.
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	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist ( 1881- 1954 )
		Ewald Kleist was born in Braunfels an der Lahn on the 8th.
		Kleist's left flank was very much exposed, but there was little that Runstedt could do to reinforce it, the Russians were very aware that they could ill afford to allow the Germans to hang on to Rostov, to use it as a springboard for their next 1942 summer offensive.
		Kleist now neeeded to hold the Kuban across the Straits of Kerch at the Crimea, he was under severe pressure from 8 Soviet Armies, as the Germans tried to dig in, but Kleist held firm.
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	BERND HEINRICH WILHELM... - Online Information article about BERND HEINRICH WILHELM...
		Conrad, Heinrich von Kleist als Mensch and Dichter (1896); G.
		Steig, Heinrich von Kleists Berliner Kampfe (1901); F.
		Rahmer, H. von Kleist als Mensch and Dichter (1909).
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	Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist information - Search.com
		Born into an aristocratic family, von Kleist was educated in a German military school and served as a lieutenant of hussars and a regimental commander in World War I.
		In the Battle of France he commanded Panzergruppe von Kleist, consisting of XLI and XIX (under Guderian) Panzer [Corps, the two southernmost armoured corps in the drive to the English Channel.
		In April 1941, von Kleist commanded 1st Panzergruppe, comprising XVIII and XL Panzer Corps, which spearheaded the Blitzkrieg-style invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece.
	www.search.com /reference/Paul_Ludwig_Ewald_von_Kleist (404 words)

	18.05.01 / Ewald von Kleist, Mitverschwörer Stauffenbergs, über seine Motive, Hitler zu töten, und die Anwürfe ...
		Ewald von Kleist, Mitverschwörer Stauffenbergs, über seine Motive, Hitler zu töten, und die Anwürfe gegen den 20.
		Kleist: Da habe ich von Anfang an keine Hoffnung gehabt.
		Kleist: Verloren ist nie etwas endgültig, aber mir war klar, daß das, was auf Deutschland zukommen würde, grauenhaft werden würde.
	www.jf-archiv.de /archiv01/211yy09.htm (1861 words)

	Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin
		Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin traveled to London in the summer of 1938 as a secret emissary of Ludwig Beck and Admiral Canaris to inform the British government of the existence of a German opposition to Hitler.
		He also encouraged his son Lt. Ewald Heinrich von Kleist to volunteer for a suicide assassination attempt organized by Stauffenberg and set for January 1944.
		The criminal investigation involving his son, Ewald-Heinrich, who on July 20, 1944, was present in the Bendler Block with the conspirators as aide-de-camp under orders from Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg, was dropped on December 12, 1944.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Schmenzin.html (346 words)

	Ewald von Kleist - Definition, explanation
		Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715-1759); German poet and soldier;
		Count Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890-1945); conspirator in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler
		1922); son of Count Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin; another co-conspirator in the July 20 bomb plot.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/ew/ewald_von_kleist.php (136 words)

	Ewald von Kleist - Biography
		Ewald Heinrich von Kleist (1922-), anti-Nazi and post-war founder of the publishing company Ewald-von-Kleist-Verlag in Berlin, is a scion of an aristocratic Prussian land-owning, literary and military family.
		His father, lawyer and landowner Count Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin (1890-1945), was executed by the Nazi regime for his part in planning to overthrow Hitler.
		A second lieutenant in the German Army in WWII, Kleist was one of a group of young officers associated with Count Claus von Stauffenberg, leader of the failed 20 July 1944 uprising against Hitler.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0902534/bio (474 words)

	Garnisonfriedhof
		Drei unterschiedliche Radierungen hatte Rode nach dem Gedächtnisbild für Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715 - 1759) in der Berliner Garnisonkirche angefertigt.
		Ewald von Kleist stand seit 1741 als Offizier in preußischen Diensten, er nahm am Siebenjährigen Krieg teil, wurde in der Schlacht bei Kunersdorf schwer verwundet und starb an den Folgen dieser Verletzungen.
		Nach den Umbauten von 1817, 1863 und 1900 präsentierte sich die Kirche ihrem Besucher jeweils in neuem Antlitz.
	www.garnisonkirche-berlin.de /11-6.htm (1196 words)

	Commanders: Ewald von Kleist
		A corps commander during the invasion of Poland in 1939, he led a panzer group during the fall of France in May-June 1940.
		On October 6, 1941, his panzer group became the First Panzer Army; it had taken Rostov by November, but was then forced to withdraw from the city and spend the winter of 1941-42 on the defensive.
		During Operation Blue, Kleist and his army advanced into the Caucasus, but long supply lines and Red Army counterattacks forced him to retire once more at the end of 1942.
	www.germanwarmachine.com /commanders/ewaldvonkleist.htm (296 words)

	I agreed to kill Hitler - and myself [Free Republic]
		Ewald von Kleist, now 78, is the only man still alive of those who plotted to kill Hitler in July 1944.
		Ewald von Kleist was known to be one of an inner cadre of army officers with strong anti-Nazi sympathies.
		Kleist's father had travelled to London for "political discussions" back in 1938 at the behest of Ludwig Beck, the then Army Chief of General Staff (Beck had attempted in vain to persuade his generals to resign in order to prevent war).
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a397c445912bc.htm (2126 words)

	Armchair General Magazine: Interactive Military History
		Von Rundstedt’s rationale was that the network of canals in northern France would impede their forward movement and that they ought to be conserved for later operations to the south.
		By the time Hitler permitted von Rundstedt to resume his offensive to capture the Channel ports on May 26, the decision to evacuate the BEF at Dunkirk had been taken and was already in motion.
		Von Rundstedt’s inclination to halt von Kleist’s panzers was strongly influenced by the fact that the infantry lagged far behind his armor, which he regarded as vulnerable without infantry support.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /articles.php?p&page=1&p=2900&page=2 (1533 words)

	Third Reich History: August 8 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		von Kleist saw that Hitler would bring calamity to Germany and plotted to capture and eliminate him and the entire Nazi party before the invasion of Austria...Semi-retired, in August 1939 he was recalled to active duty at the age of fifty eight; captured by United States forces in 1945.
		Erwin von Witzleben, German Army commander and a resistance fighter in the July 20 Plot: Generalfeldmarschall von Witzleben was to take over supreme command of the whole Wehrmacht as the highest German soldier.
		Von Witzleben's closing words in court (addressed to Freisler) were: You can hand us over to the hangman.
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