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    Walter Karl Ernst August von Reichenau (8 October 1884 – 17 January 1942) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Heer (Army) of Nazi...
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    on the Eastern Front during World War II by Generalfeldmarschall Walter von Reichenau on 10 October 1941. The order said, in part: The most important objective...
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    included the First Panzer Group (Gen. Kleist) and the German Sixth (Gen. Reichenau), Seventeenth (Gen. Stülpnagel) and Eleventh Armies (Gen. Schobert), Luftlotte...
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    Schleicher. Blomberg sacked Ferdinand von Bredow as chief of the Ministeramt and replaced him with General Walter von Reichenau, Eugen Ott was dismissed as chief...
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  • candidate as the army had refused to accept Hitler's first choice of Walter von Reichenau as Fritsch's successor. As well as money, in early 1943, General...
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    November 1941, after the German Sixth Army's commander, Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, Paulus's patron, became commander of the entire Army Group South...
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    Schleicher. Blomberg sacked Ferdinand von Bredow as chief of the Ministeramt and replaced him with General Walter von Reichenau, Eugen Ott was dismissed as chief...
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    Keitel convinced Hitler to appoint Walther von Brauchitsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, replacing von Fritsch. Keitel was promoted to Generaloberst...
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    South on 20 January 1942, after the death of Generalfeldmarshall Walter von Reichenau from a stroke. Thus, in May 1942, he commanded the defending forces...
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    Mölders 1942 – Walter von Reichenau 1942 – Herbert Geitner 1942 – Fritz Todt 1942 – Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen 1942 – Carl August von Gablenz 1942 –...
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    crimes at Babi Yar while under the command of Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau during Operation Barbarossa. The 6th Army was reformed in March 1943...
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    Army, under the command of Generaloberst Walter von Reichenau, which in turn formed part of Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt's Army Group South. World War...
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    Silesia General der Artillerie Walter von Reichenau 10. Armee Reserves 1. leichte Division (Generalmajor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Loeper) Panzer-Regiment 11...
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    toward Kraków and to turn the Poles' Carpathian flank. General Walter von Reichenau's 10th Army, in the centre with Army Group South's armour, was to...
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    Heusinger, and Hans Speidel. During the war, Foertsch had worked under Walter von Reichenau, an ardent Nazi who issued the Severity Order. Foertsch became one...
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    Werner von Fritsch, Erich Ludendorff, Walter Model, Walter von Reichenau, Dietrich von Saucken, Wilhelm Keitel, Dietrich von Choltiz, Hans von Seeckt...
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    London, 2008, Harper Press. ISBN 978-0007176441 [page needed] Walter Görlitz, "Reichenau," in Correlli Barnett ed., Hitler's Generals (New York: Grove...
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    Fliegerführer z.b.V., was to support the 10th Army, under the command of Walter von Reichenau. The army contained the majority of the motorised and armoured units...
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    when the Army commander Kurt von Hammerstein resigned, Hitler's choice for Hammerstein's successor General Walter von Reichenau was vetoed by the Army officer...
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    by the new Defence Minister, General Werner von Blomberg, who replaced him with General Walter von Reichenau. In the spring of 1934, Bredow was significantly...
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  • von Leeb, Wilhelm List, Günther von Kluge, Erwin von Witzleben and Walter von Reichenau (Heer); and Albert Kesselring, Erhard Milch and Hugo Sperrle (Luftwaffe)...
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  • Generaloberst Fedor von Bock (Chief of Staff: Generalleutnant Hans von Salmuth) Sixth Army - Generaloberst Walter von Reichenau (Chief of Staff: Generalmajor...
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    October 1, 1939 – Günther von Kluge (1882–1944) October 1, 1939 – Johannes Blaskowitz (1883–1948) October 1, 1939 – Walter von Reichenau (1884–1942) November...
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  • former Communists. In 1933, General Werner von Blomberg, the Minister of Defence, and General Walter von Reichenau, the chief of the Reichswehr's Ministerial...
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    captured the town. On 30 September, the commander of 10th Army, Walter von Reichenau, ordered his staff to plan the destruction of a large Polish force...
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    Heinrich Gottfried Otto Richard von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel (6 December 1887 – 23 February 1952) was a German general (Generaloberst) of the Wehrmacht...
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    commanders under Halder including Erich Hoepner, Erich von Manstein and Walter von Reichenau gave antisemitic speeches and orders. On 5 May 1945 Halder...
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  • 356. Siebigk 1883, pp. 364, 365. Anton Balthasar König, Henning Alexander von Kleist,Biographisches Lexikon aller Helden und Militärpersonen: T. G-L, A...
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    design as generals' but in carmine rather than scarlet. Arabesques Walter von Reichenau From 1900 and on Prussian generals had worn ornate collar patches...
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    Bredow (1884–1934) 1 June 1932 30 January 1933 243 days 3 Reichenau, WalterOberst Walter von Reichenau (1884–1942) 1 February 1933 1 February 1934 1 year, 0 days...
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