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    Hans Krebs (4 March 1898 – 2 May 1945) was a German Army general of infantry who served during World War II. A career soldier, he served in the Reichswehr...
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  • Hans Krebs is the name of: Hans Krebs (SS general) (1888–1947), German-Czech politician and Nazi Party Gauleiter Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general) (1898–1945)...
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  • executed for war crimes Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general) (1898–1945), last German Army chief of staff during World War II Hans Loritz (1895–1946), German...
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  • designer Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general) (1898–1945), German general Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), biochemist (Krebs cycle / citric acid cycle) Hans Krebs (SS...
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    infantry. General of the Infantry was a former rank of General of the branch OF-8 in the German land forces (Imperial Army, Reichswehr and Wehrmacht) and also...
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    Wilhelm Burgdorf (category Generals of Infantry (Wehrmacht))
    colleague Chief of Staff Hans Krebs committed suicide together by gunshot to the head. The Soviets found the bodies of Krebs and Burgdorf in the bunker...
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    Heinz Guderian (redirect from Hans Guderian)
    nad Odrą in Poland), Guderian was sent on leave. He was replaced by General Hans Krebs. Guderian cultivated close personal relationships with the most powerful...
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    Wilhelm Keitel (category Major generals of the Reichswehr)
    German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's armed forces, during World War...
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  • to General Helmuth Weidling. On 1 May 1945, after Hitler's suicide on 30 April, the new German Chancellor, Joseph Goebbels, sent General Hans Krebs and...
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    Helmuth Weidling (category Generals of Artillery (Wehrmacht))
    Führerbunker and was met by Joseph Goebbels, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann and General Hans Krebs. They took him to Hitler's room, where the couple had committed suicide...
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    instructed the Truppenamt/General Staff to ignore the Versailles restrictions; he would create a greatly expanded Wehrmacht, including the Army, the Navy...
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  • central Berlin. Boldt reported to General Hans Krebs and was summoned to a daily briefing session with Hitler, his generals, and closest associates - in particular...
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    Maybach I and II (category Wehrmacht)
    Chief of the Army General Staff, Hans Krebs. On 20 April the Soviet 3rd Armoured Guard Army threatened the HQ near Zossen. General Krebs asked Hitler for...
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  • Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven (category Lieutenant generals of the German Army)
    adjutant to the Chief of Army General Staff (first, General Heinz Guderian and then General Hans Krebs). Loringhoven's last assignment was as a staff officer...
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    was subordinated to the OKW of the Wehrmacht, under Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. Later served as the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr (1957–1961) and...
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  • submachine guns with no heavy weapons. Heinrici called Hans Krebs, Chief of the German General Staff of (OKH), told him that the plan could not be implemented...
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  • Army Headquarters (German: Oberkommando des Heeres, OKH) General der Infanterie Hans Krebs. The task involved attacking a Soviet command post, and Heuer...
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  • the Chancellorship, but immediately decides to commit suicide after General Hans Krebs fails to negotiate a conditional surrender with Soviet Marshal Vasily...
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  • hours) and then himself fell asleep at the wheel. He was replaced by Hans Krebs, but command initiative had already been lost. Later that day, Zhukov...
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    Ernst August Köstring (category Generals of Cavalry (Wehrmacht))
    and Hans Krebs, attended the Soviet military parade in Moscow in honour of International Workers' Day. On 1 September 1942, he was appointed "General Officer...
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    Walther Wenck (redirect from General Wenck)
    December 1942 as Oberst and chief of the general staff of the Armeegruppe Hollidt. Battle of Halbe – 1945 Hans Krebs, Chief of Staff Helmuth Weidling, Commander...
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    Vasily Chuikov (category CS1 Simplified Chinese-language sources (zh-hans))
    Hitler's suicide, being informed by General Hans Krebs who had come to Chuikov's headquarters under a white flag. Krebs, under orders from Goebbels, sought...
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    being abandoned. During the night Krukenberg informed General Hans Krebs, Chief of the General Staff of Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) that within 24 hours...
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  • Otto Heidkämper (category Lieutenant generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht))
    1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6...
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  • – 15 April 1944) Generalleutnant Hans Speidel ( 15 April 1944 – 1 September 1944) General der Infanterie Hans Krebs (1 September 1944 – 17 February 1945)...
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    Reichsminister): Dr. Robert Ley Witnessed by Goebbels, Bormann, General Wilhelm Burgdorf, and General Hans Krebs. On the afternoon of 30 April, about a day and a half...
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  • Rudolf Holste (category Lieutenant generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht))
    forces inside Berlin were cut off. Late in the evening of 29 April, General Hans Krebs contacted Jodl by radio from Berlin and requested an immediate report...
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    Friedrich Dollmann (category Colonel generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht))
    85. Barnett, Correlli, ed. (2003). Hitler’s Generals. New York: Grove Press. Boog, Horst, Gerhard Krebs, and Detlef Vogel eds., (2001). Das Deutsche...
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    Bergen-Belsen. Hans Krebs – Honorary Gauleiter and a Regierungspräsident in Reichsgau Sudetenland Hans KrebsGeneral of the Wehrmacht; last OKH chief...
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    myth of the clean Wehrmacht. According to The Atlantic, it shows that "the Wehrmacht—and not, as postwar accounts by German generals would have it, merely...
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