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  Walther von Reichenau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walther von Reichenau (August 16, 1884 - January 17, 1942), German military commander, was the son of a Prussian general and joined the German Army in 1902.
In September 1939, von Reichenau commanded the 10th Army during the invasion of Poland.
A few historians such as Walter Görlitz have sought to defend von Reichenau, summarizing his October 1941 "Reichenau Order" as "demanding that the troops keep their distance from the Russian civilian population." Actually, the order included such cruel directives as killing any Russian civilian found travelling without a permit and away from his home village.
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 Erwin von Witzleben - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Job-Wilhelm Georg "Erwin" von Witzleben (born 4 December 1881 in Breslau; died 8 August 1944 in Berlin, executed) was a German army officer (by 1940 a generalfeldmarschall) and in the Second World War an Army commander and a resistance fighter in the July 20 Plot.
In the Wehrmacht, von Witzleben was promoted to major-general on 1 February 1934 and moved to Potsdam as the new commander of the Third Infantry Division.
von Witzleben, however, was arrested on 20 July 1944 – the day of von Stauffenberg's attempt on Hitler's life at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia – upon arriving at OKH-HQ (Oberkommando des Heeres Headquarters) in Berlin to assume command of the coup forces.
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 Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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 Walter von Reichenau
Walter von Reichenau, the son of a Prussian general, was born in Germany on August 16t, 1884.
Reichenau's uncle, Friedrich von Reichenau, was an ardent supporter of the Nazi Party and, in 1932, he introduced his nephew to Adolf Hitler.
Reichenau, a strong opponent of an invasion of the Soviet Union, also took part in Operation Barbarossa during the summer of 1941.
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 Erich von Manstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this post, von Manstein brought about one of the greatest victories in modern warfare when, despite the numerical and material superiority of the Soviets, he was able to halt the Red Army’s offensive fresh from the victory at Stalingrad and went on to capture the city of Kharkov with his own successful counteroffensive.
On 4 February 1938 von Manstein was appointed commander of the 18th infantry division with the rank of Generalleutnant in Liegnitz, Silesia.
While Paget got von Manstein acquitted of many of the seventeen charges, he was still found guilty of two charges and accountable for seven others, mainly for employing scorched earth tactics and for failing to protect the civilian population, and was sentenced on December 19, 1949, to 18 years imprisonment.
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 Georg von Küchler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Georg von Küchler (May 30, 1881 - May 25, 1968) was a German field marshal during World War II.
Küchler led the German 18th Army in 1940 in the invasion of neutral Holland and was able to defeat the much smaller Dutch army and continued on into Belgium.
The colonel general became commander of Army Group North after Field Marshall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb was relieved of his command.
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 Walter von Reichenau
Walter von Reichenau, the son of a Prussian general, was born in Germany on 16th August, 1884.
Blomberg persuaded Adolf Hitler to appoint Reichenau to the post but after a group of senior army officers complained, President Paul von Hindenburg vetoed the selection and General Werner von Fitsch was chosen instead.
Reichenau encouraged his soldiers to commit atrocities against the Jews in the territory under his control.
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 [CTRL] [1] War Crimes: American Prosecution of Nazi Milita…"
General von Reichenau assured the Fuehrer that "'[t]he armed forces were never more identical with the tasks of the State than today.'" 35 Following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg on August 2, 1934, Hitler assumed the positions of Chief of State and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
Von Leeb, to his credit, was one of several officers who had confidentially contended that this order contravened international law and that the Russians would react by reliantly resisting capture.
Von Kuechler was an experienced soldier who was described as "cold-blooded and ruthless." 165 Between 1941 and 1942, he commanded the 18th Army.
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 Polish September Campaign - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop declared negotiations with Poland to be at an end, and Polish forces braced for war.
General Fedor von Bock commanded Army Group North comprising General Georg von Küchler's 3rd Army, which struck southward from East Prussia, and General Günther von Kluge's 4th Army, which struck eastward across the base of the Polish Corridor.
Light divisions on Reichenau's right were on the Vistula between Warsaw and the town of Sandomierz by 9 September, while List, in the south, was on the river San above and below the town of Przemyśl.
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 War Crimes: American Prosecution of Nazi Military Officers
SS Colonel Walter Blume was commander of Sonderkommando 7a which was attached to Einsatzgruppe B. Blume, like the other defendants, presented affidavits testifying to his "honesty, good nature, kindness, tolerance, and sense of justness." 295 The Tribunal bemoaned that a person of such moral stature had fallen under the influence of Adolf Hitler.
On April 28, 1941, von Weichs issued an order which established the twin touchstones of German occupation of Yugoslavia and Greece: a refusal to recognize partisan fighters and suspected sympathizers as either lawful belligerents or "protected persons;" and the execution of hostages in reprisal for the wounding and killing of Germans.
Von Weichs and Felmy concluded that the officer's action was "'merely a transgression against formality and corresponded to a natural soldierly feeling.'" The officer was only subjected to disciplinary sanctions.
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 [4.0] The Soviets Stand Fast
On arrival, Hitler informed Field Marshall von Bock that he was to halt his drive towards Moscow, and that the panzers of Army Group Center were to be used to support a drive by Army Group South to capture the Ukraine, with smaller forces diverted to support Army Groups North's push on Leningrad.
Runstedt's replacement was Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, previously commander of the 6th Army, a macho bulldog of a man with a perpetually furious expression who the aristocratic Runstedt found crude and overbearing.
Von Brauchitsch suffered a heart attack and was forced to retire on 19 December, with the Fuehrer having little kindly to say about him and then assigning himself, Hitler, the role of Commander in Chief of the German Army.
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 World War 2 Awards.com - BOCK, von, Fedor
Fedor von Bock was born December 3rd, 1880 in Kustrin, Germany as son of an army officier.
During the invasion of France and the Low Countries in May and June 1940, Von Bock was Commander in Chief of Heeresgruppe B. June 22nd, 1941, saw the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union and Von Bock was put in command of Heeresgruppe Mitte (Armygroup Centre).
A few weeks later however, after the unexpected death of Fieldmarshall Walter von Reichenau, commander of Heeresgruppe Süd, Von Bock was back in favor and named his successor.
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 Shofar FTP Archives: places/ussr/ukraine/belaya_tserkov/belaya_tse.001
At the time, the commander of this army was Field Marshall Walter von Reichenau.
Blobel agreed, explaining that Reichenau understood the necessity of the action and suggesting that soldiers who snooped carry out the shootings themselves.
The Feldkommandant had declared repeatedly that the Jewish herd had to be exterminated and that, once the adults had been shot, the children, especially infants, had to be eliminated as a matter of course.
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Wilhelm von Leeb Franz Halder *Friedrich Paulus Walter von Reichenau Japanese wartime document described this island as "the fork in the road which leads to victory for them or for us." *Guadalcanal Okinawa Iwo Jima Midway This officer replaced Joseph W. Stillwell as American commanding general of the China theater.
Heinz Guderian Franz Halder Gunther von Kluge *Erich von Manstein ?Manstein was regarded by many as the greatest German field commander of the war, and when he was finally removed by Hitler his removal certainly aided Russia rather than Germany.
*Walter von Brauchitsch Paul von Kleist Walter von Reichenau Wilhelm von Leeb I commanded the U.S. Tenth Army in the last operation of the war in the Pacific, the capture of Okinawa.
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 Standing Fast: German defensive doctrine on the Russian front during world war II
Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, when describing his experiences as a panzer corps commander in Russia during the summer of 1941, observed that "the security of a tank formation operating in the enemy's rear largely [depended] on its ability to keep moving.
In July, to the despair of General Halder and Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, commander in chief of the German Army, Hitler began to renew the meddlesome interference in tactical operations that he had practiced in the French campaign.
Field Marshal von Bock discerned the threat that these attacks posed to Army Group Center, Bock had no desire to see his units ground up piecemeal in battles of attrition and preferred instead to resume the fluid battles of maneuver that had earlier characterized the campaign.
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 The History Place - Triumph of Hitler
His very first victim was Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, Chancellor of Austria, a country being torn apart from within by Nazi agitators and also feeling threatened from the outside by Germany's newfound military strength.
The meeting was arraigned by Franz von Papen, the former ambassador to Austria.
As for Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, the man who had defied Hitler, he was arrested by the Gestapo and spent several years in a variety of Nazi concentration camps including Dachau and Sachsenhausen.
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In this document, Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau (1884-1942) of the German Sixth Army, in the southern sector of the German assault on the Soviet Union, reacts to reports of the softness of his troops by instilling them with particularly strong statements about their role in suppressing communism and Soviet Jewry.
Reichenau was known as one of the most strongly Nazi of the leading German Wehrmacht (army) commanders.
He died of a stroke only a few months after he issued this document to his troops.
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 alfred rosenberg letters
It is in response to a letter from Rosenberg to Rust on 30 Mai 1941 and discusses new material from Walter Frank.
Item 4 is a letter from Chief of the Ministry Staff Walter von Reichenau.
The letter is hand signed by von Reichenau who would later become a Field Marshall.
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 npeople
Apolitical and cautious, he was not held in high esteem by his fellow officers.
Reichenau was one of the few German commanders who enthusiastically supported the campaign against Russia, including the brutal treatment of "Asiatic inferiors" and Jews.
He established connections to the Kreisau Circles through his cousin Count Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and after the arrest of Moltke he took personal charge of the conspiracy against Hitler.
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 Western Europe Timeline
Walter von Reichenau attacked just before dawn on May 10 to jump the Meuse and the Albert Canal north of Liege and swing southwestward into the Gembloux gap.
The energy of Col. Claus von Stauffenberg finally brought the plot to a head on July 20, 1944, but his attempt on Hitler's life and the subsequent putsch failed, confirming Hitler's belief in his own invincibility.
The goal of Operation Cobra was to attack and breakthrough German lines between rivers Vire and Lozon.
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 For All Time - World War II (parts 1-34)
[von Bussche] is transferred to France to fight the Darlanists; [Klausing] is at Zossen, preparing for the Fuhrer's imminent move.
They'll be there tomorrow, von Kesselring to plead for his bombers (as if he stands a chance, with Goering in chains for his failure), Dornbergers for his rockets, and Keitel and the rest of his Army lackeys, Jodl and Blomberg and Reichenau, to bow and scrape before the greatest evil we have ever known.
Erich von Witzleben is in no position to surrender all German troops fighting; not in the way Guderian or Heydrich might be, but he can save the lives of his men, and of their families, if he moves quickly, which he does.
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 Eastern Front.............. - Topic Powered by eve community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Walther von Brauchitsch, commander-in-chief of the army, and Chief of the Army General Staff Halder pleaded for a swift advance by the central army group towards Moscow.
At the same time, the Sixth Army under the command of Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau was attacking from the west.
The German troops evacuated the town and General Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt asked that they should be allowed to retreat, but Hitler had no intention of agreeing to his request.
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 GI -- World War II Commemoration
Fedor von Bock, was reduced to 28 divisions, only 3 of which were armored.
The German Eighteenth Army, led by Gen. (later Field Marshal) Georg von Kuchler of Bock's Army Group B, launched the ground attack at dawn, the main column striking through the southern Netherlands to envelop the Dutch south flank.
In the center an armored force called Panzer Group Kleist after its commander, Gen. (later Field Marshal) Ewald von Kleist, was the equivalent of an army with two armored corps and a follow-up corps of 5 motorized divisions.
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 ISOH - International Society of Olympic Historians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A biography of German IOC member Walter von Reichenau (1884–1942), who was also a Field Marshal in the German army, by ISOH President Karl Lennartz.
A closer look into the women's 800 m at the 1928 Olympics, the first time female track and field athletes competed at the Olympics, written by Ian Jobling.
Walter von Reichenau was both a German IOC member and a Field Marshal.
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 Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch
On the overthrow of Fritsch, on fabricated evidence of improper conduct, in 1938, Brauchitsch was chosen by Hitler to succeed as head of OKH and Commander and Chief of the Army.
Hitler would have preferred the avowed pro-Nazi Reichenau, but Rundstedt, among others, succeeded in convincing the Fuhrer that his appointment would alienate the senior officer corps, something Hitler was not anxious to do.
Rundstedt in fact hoped that Brauchitsch would preserve what was left of the Army's independence but in this he was mistaken.
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 Joel Hayward's Books and Articles: Joel Hayward Scholarship: Air Power, Stalingrad and More
He courted General Werner von Blomberg, whom President Paul von Hindenburg had appointed Reichswehr Minister in January 1933 (immediately before Hitler assumed office) and Colonel Walter von Reichenau, Blomberg's Ministerial Office Chief.
3 Encouraged by Reichenau, Blomberg immediately ordered "all soldiers of the Wehrmacht" to pledge an oath of allegiance — not to the Reich Constitution, as it was until December 1933, or to the Volk and Fatherland, as it was afterwards — but to the new Supreme Commander himself.
He replaced Fritsch as Army C-in-C with Walter von Brauchitsch, this being a far easier move than finding a replacement for Blomberg.
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