Wenn ich Ende Mai nach London komme«, meldete Brigadegeneral Achim Oster, 54, dem Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr, Ulrich de Maizière, 56, »dann haue ich dem Oberst Brückner eine »runter.« Mit ...
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Hitler wanted Kharkov back. Manstein had a better plan
After the disaster at Stalingrad, the Red Army surged deep into Ukraine believing Germany was finished. But while Hitler ...
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Korsun-Cherkassy - Hitler’s Ukrainian pocket that Manstein refused to let die
In early 1944, Soviet forces trapped tens of thousands of German troops in the Korsun-Cherkassy pocket in Ukraine as Hitler ...
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What if Hitler had listened to Manstein before Kursk?
As Germany prepared for its decisive offensive in 1943, one of its most respected commanders warned against the path being ...
After Stalingrad, Hitler refused retreat even as Soviet forces pushed dangerously close to his headquarters. Manstein’s warnings and mobile defense plan forced a desperate decision that may have saved ...
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Just when Germany looked finished, Manstein struck back
After the disaster at Stalingrad, Soviet forces surged westward expecting the German front to collapse completely. Instead, ...
Dem Generalfeldmarschall von Manstein ist wohl keinesfalls bei der Abfassung seines Buches »Aus einem Soldatenleben« daran gelegen gewesen, daß er hier ein Werk verfaßte, welches für die Bundeswehr ...
Above: A Von Karman vortex street downwind of the Canary Island chain in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa on Feb. 27, 2015. Image credit: NASA Worldview. Editor's note: Meteorologist ...
How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days? The deal is a significant boost for Hungary's leader, who has been in office for less than three weeks. One ...
Brown-shirted Fascists massed and milled last week outside a squat, soldier-guarded mansion on Berlin’s famed Wilhelmstrasse, shouted qualified approval of the occupant. They roared not “Hail ...
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