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2 giorni fa · German general Heinz Guderian (centre), commander of Panzer Group 2, on 20 August 1941. The Germans attacked Leningrad in August 1941; in the following three "black months" of 1941, 400,000 residents of the city worked to build the city's fortifications as fighting continued, while 160,000 others joined the ranks of the Red Army.
2 giorni fa · According to Peter Caddick-Adams, he was backed by Hitler, the influential Fourteenth Army commander Wilhelm List (a fellow Württemberger middle-class "military outsider") and likely Heinz Guderian, the commander of XIX Army Corps, as well.
6 giorni fa · Heinz Guderian is widely regarded as one of the most influential military minds of the 20th century. As a German general during World War II, he played a pivotal role in developing and implementing the Blitzkrieg strategy, which revolutionized warfare and gave Germany early victories in the war.
4 giorni fa · In seiner Funktion als General der Panzertruppen war Guderian an allen Aggressionshandlungen Nazideutschlands maßgeblich beteiligt; für seine "Erfolge" im Vernichtungskrieg gegen die Sowjetunion erhielt er 1941 das Ritterkreuz mit Eichenlaub, einen der höchsten militärischen Orden des NS-Regimes.
3 giorni fa · German forces in the theater were composed of elements of the 4th German Army under general Günther von Kluge, specifically 19th Panzer Corps (commanded by general Heinz Guderian), and 2nd Army Corps under general Adolf Strauß. Those units were based in Western Pomerania (west of the corridor).
5 giorni fa · Heinz Guderian (Autor) Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1994 [Neuauflage, Nachdruck 2003., gebunden] [Deutsch]
1 giorno fa · D-Day has its 80th anniversary today. Its success was in part due to the efforts of Lance-Corporal Percy Hobart from Chipping Camden. This sleepy town was not high on Hitler’s list of priority targets, yet in 1940 its defences were second to none, described as “a hedgehog of bristling defiance.”. The reason was simple.
