Franz von Roques (1 September 1877 – 7 August 1967) was a German general during World War II. He was the commander of Army Group North Rear Area behind...

the Army Group North Rear Area. In late June and early July 1941, Franz von Roques, the Rear Area commander, informed Leeb of the massacres of Jews by...

World War, Roques served in staff roles in several divisions. By the end of the war he was promoted to major. After the armistice, Roques remained in...

German invasion of the Soviet Union. Initially commanded by General Franz von Roques, it was an area of military jurisdiction behind Wehrmacht's Army Group...

the war tried and executed for war crimes. Army Group South Rear Area Von Roques was convicted of war crimes at the High Command Trial held at Nuremburg...

which in turn had been activated just a few days prior, on 26 August. Fedor von Bock, commanding general of 2nd Army, became the first commanding general...

German senior officers, including Heinz Guderian, Gerhard Engel, Fedor von Bock and Franz Halder, who believed the decisive victory could only be delivered...

Erich Julius Eberhard von dem Bach-Zelewski (born Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski; 1 March 1899 – 8 March 1972) was a high-ranking SS commander of...

part of the 18th Motorized Infantry Division. This group was given to Franz von Roques, then responsible for the rear of Army Group North. The maneuver planned...

Jews and more than 400 dispersed soldiers of the Red Army. Sturmbannführer Franz Magill and his men of the SS Cavalry Regiment 2, assisted in the roundup...

Jena, Germany: Scherzers Militaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2. Thomas, Franz (1997). Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 1: A–K [The Oak Leaves Bearers...

the Battle of Moscow and was replaced by Field Marshal Günther von Kluge. Günther von Kluge would remain the army group's commander until he was injured...

invasion of Poland, Army Group South was led by Gerd von Rundstedt and his chief of staff Erich von Manstein. Two years later, Army Group South became one...

far as the Thirty Years' War. Under the German Empire established by Otto von Bismarck in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War—formed as a union of twenty-five...

to be investigated more closely". He places Nebe in this category, with Franz Halder, chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH), and Georg Thomas...

held in Orsha between the head of the OKH (Army General Staff), General Franz Halder and the heads of three Army groups and armies, decided to push forward...

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Erich Friderici Ludwig Kübler Kuno-Hans von Both Franz von Roques Karl von Roques Edwin von Rothkirch Max von Schenckendorff Joachim Witthöft Security...

Erich Friderici Ludwig Kübler Kuno-Hans von Both Franz von Roques Karl von Roques Edwin von Rothkirch Max von Schenckendorff Joachim Witthöft Security...

Karl von Tiedemann (? August 1939 – 1 January 1943) Generalleutnant Erich Hofmann (1 January 1943 – ? November 1943) Generalleutnant Bogislav Graf von Schwerin...

Eduard Beit von Speyer [de] and his wife Lucie Speyer. In 1928, she married the physician Kurt Rüdiger von Roques [de]. In the mid-1930s, von Beit became...

to death. He was executed by hanging on 30 January 1946. "HERFF, Eberhard von". www.redcap70.net. Retrieved 2022-05-30. Blood 2006, p. 226. Höhne, Heinz...

Command (the OKH) and issued by the Wehrmacht High Command (the OKW). General Franz Halder welcomed it, writing that "Troops must participate in the ideological...

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were controversial within the military, Abwehr officer Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was one of the few who favored treating Soviet prisoners according...

Max von Schenckendorff (24 February 1875 – 6 July 1943) was a German military general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was the...

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Erich Friderici Ludwig Kübler Kuno-Hans von Both Franz von Roques Karl von Roques Edwin von Rothkirch Max von Schenckendorff Joachim Witthöft Security...

assassination by Werwolf operatives of the Allied-appointed mayor of Aachen, Franz Oppenhoff. After Adolf Hitler's suicide, Prützmann briefly acted as Himmler's...

Kuno-Hans von Both (9 April 1884 – 22 May 1955) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of both the Pour le Mérite of the German...