Generalfeldmarschall Model: Biographie.

Görlitz, Walter:

ISBN 10: 3938176350 / ISBN 13: 9783938176351

Published by Lindenbaum Verlag, 2012

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8°, 287 Seiten, farbig illustr. OPbd. - sehr guter Zustand - 2005. H7922 ISBN: 9783938176351 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Generalfeldmarschall Model: Biographie.
• Publisher: Lindenbaum Verlag
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3938176350
• ISBN 13: 9783938176351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Sehr gut

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Synopsis

Walter Model, General Field Marshal since 30 March 1944, was considered a particularly capable strategist of the defensive during the Second World War. Five times he has not only restored the front as a troop leader on the Eastern Front after defeats and retreats, but also given his soldiers new strength and new will to fight through his personal commitment: in 1942 in the Rshew Arch, 1943 in the Orelbogen, 1944 first in the Baltics, then in Eastern Galicia and then in Belarus. When the German Western army threatened to break under the attack of the Allied invasion armies in the high summer of 1944, he has once again stabilised the German front on the western border and in South Holland. And when finally in the Ruhr area all possibilities of military defence were exhausted, he showed an unusual consequence as a soldier. He dissolved his army group himself to avoid a senseless despair struggle and the destruction of the largest German industrial region. On April 21, 1945, he put an end to his life by his own hand, an example of what tragic entanglement a soldier can get into a leading position who obeys a political leadership, even if it acts against all the rules of reason and law. At the same time, it is also an example of what high skill belongs to lead correctly during retreats and in the defensive and to maintain the morale of the troupe undiminished. Among the front soldiers, Field Marshal Model had enormous popularity. Characterized by the tradition of German professional soldierism, according to models belief, it could only be up to the governors to draw political consequences from military events. However, this principle of view did not prevent him from contradicting Hitler in military questions, even refusing the execution of his seemingly absurd orders. Walter Görlitz (24.2.1913 - 14.10.1991), is considered one of the most important German military historians of the 20th century. Even internationally, his study on the German General Staff was highly recognized. He issued the estates of the General Field Marshals of the German Wehrmacht Friedrich Paulus and Wilhelm Keitel. For the present biography General Field Marshal Models, he was able to evaluate his personal estate.