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Marc Koralnik |
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VON RUNDSTEDT
A biography of Field Marshal von Rundstedt, the last Prussian who served Hitler, for whom the honor of serving outweighed any other consideration.
His name appears in all books related to the Second World War in Europe, yet he is probably the least known of the great generals of the Wehrmacht. Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953), a Prussian aristocrat, veteran of the Great War and senior commander of the German armed forces, took part in the main European campaigns of the conflict, both as the designer and executor of invasion plans: Poland in 1939 was his project, as was, in part, France in 1940, and France and Russia in 1941.
He was an old-school officer, a great tactician, a master of the art of operations, but not a great strategist that domain, in any case, was taken over by Hitler after 1941. He had the unique honor of being dismissed from his post three times in a single war by the Fuehrer, who could not, in fact, do without him. For example, he was removed from his command for failing to save the situation after the D-Day landing, but recalled at the end of the summer of 1944 to preside over the military court that tried a number of his peers for their part in the July 20 assassination attempt on Hitler.
Dismissed definitively in March 1945 -- he had failed to prevent the Reich's enemies from crossing the Rhine -- he was arrested by the Americans in Bavaria where, exhausted and suffering from rheumatism, he was being treated in a sanatorium.
LAURENT SCHANG, journalist and publisher, is a specialist of the Second World War and the author of several books dealing with European wars down through the ages, including Le Bras droit du monde libre (The Free World's Right Arm, Alexipharmaque, 2019) and Kriegspiel 2014
(Retour aux sources editions, 2013).
He was an old-school officer, a great tactician, a master of the art of operations, but not a great strategist that domain, in any case, was taken over by Hitler after 1941. He had the unique honor of being dismissed from his post three times in a single war by the Fuehrer, who could not, in fact, do without him. For example, he was removed from his command for failing to save the situation after the D-Day landing, but recalled at the end of the summer of 1944 to preside over the military court that tried a number of his peers for their part in the July 20 assassination attempt on Hitler.
Dismissed definitively in March 1945 -- he had failed to prevent the Reich's enemies from crossing the Rhine -- he was arrested by the Americans in Bavaria where, exhausted and suffering from rheumatism, he was being treated in a sanatorium.
LAURENT SCHANG, journalist and publisher, is a specialist of the Second World War and the author of several books dealing with European wars down through the ages, including Le Bras droit du monde libre (The Free World's Right Arm, Alexipharmaque, 2019) and Kriegspiel 2014
(Retour aux sources editions, 2013).
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Published 2020-02-01 by Perrin |