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    Friedrich Karl "Fritz" von Loßberg (30 April 1868 – 4 May 1942) was a German colonel and later general, of the First World War. He was an operational planner...
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    Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (born Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski; 24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field...
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    University Press. von Kuhl, 1923, p. 188. Lee 2005, p. 96. Hindenburg 1921, p. 104. von Müller 1961, p. 89. Lossberg, Fritz von (2017). Lossberg's war: The World...
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    son of Louis Jacobi Fritz von Loßberg (1868–1942), colonel, and later general, of WW1, a strategic defence planner Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten (1885–1944)...
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    defences began but was terminated after Fritz von Loßberg was appointed Chief of Staff of the 4th Army. Loßberg rejected the proposed withdrawal to the...
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    (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps in Stuttgart. He met Fritz von Loßberg as the chief of staff. Loßberg helped Fabeck to have a united staff officers before...
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    abandoned. The 1st Army commander, General Fritz von Below and his Chief of Staff Colonel Fritz von Loßberg rejected this layout since smoke and dust would...
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    influenced by the thinking of its commander, General der Infanterie Fritz von Loßberg, who rejected the concept of an elastic defence in favour of a more...
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    were controversial. During the Battle of the Somme in 1916 Colonel Fritz von Loßberg (Chief of Staff of the 1st Army) had been able to establish a line...
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    simultaneously in January 1916 for his role in the Battle of Gallipoli. Fritz von Lossberg, World War I master-strategist; expert in the Defence in depth. Awarded...
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    Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau Fritz von Loßberg Manuel II of Portugal Franz Mattenklott Prince Maximilian of Baden Klemens von Metternich August Ludwig von Nostitz...
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    Flanders" (Der Löwe von Flandern) was given to Sixt von Armin, his Chief of the General Staff Fritz von Loßberg, and Admiral Ludwig von Schröder, the commander...
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    army had been reduced to a shadow. Sheldon also noted that Colonel Fritz von Lossberg had recorded that up to 3 November, casualties in the 4th Army were...
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    Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant-Colonel) Wetzell and Oberst (Colonel) Fritz von Lossberg, wrote to OHL warning of the mine danger and the importance of forestalling...
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    (3rd ed.). London: Book Club Associates. OCLC 819218074. Lossberg, Fritz von (2017). Lossberg's War: The World War I Memoirs of a German Chief of Staff...
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    and the despatch of troops to Rumania and the Somme front. Colonel Fritz von Loßberg, Chief of Staff of the 2nd Army, was also able to establish Ablösungsdivisionen...
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    1917. Towards the end of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Colonel Fritz von Loßberg (Chief of Staff of the 1st Army) had been able to establish a line...
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    Royal Armoured Corps, Royal Tank Regiment. OCLC 314958433. Lossberg, Fritz von (2017). Lossberg's War: The World War I Memoirs of a German Chief of Staff...
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    Elastic defence, which allowed local withdrawals, was rejected by Fritz von Loßberg, the new 4th Army Chief of Staff, because they would disorganise troops...
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    General Hermann von Kuhl 4th Army (18 divisions) General der Infanterie Friedrich Sixt von Armin Chief of Staff: General Fritz von Loßberg 6th Army (15 divisions)...
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    third position south of the Somme; Grünert was replaced by Colonel Fritz von Loßberg. The Germans were equally capable of matching British ineptitude....
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    tactics had been rejected by the 4th Army Chief of Staff, Major-General Fritz von Loßberg, who believed that a tactical withdrawal by trench garrisons would...
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    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-60568-8. Lossberg, Fritz von (2017). Lossberg's War: The World War I Memoirs of a German Chief of Staff...
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    Grünert [de], was sacked by Falkenhayn that night and replaced by Colonel Fritz von Loßberg. Next day Below issued a secret order that ground must be held at...
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    30 January 1917. During the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Colonel Fritz von Loßberg (Chief of Staff of the 1st Army) had been able to establish a line...
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    Ritter von Hörauf (1914) Günther von Kluge (1914) Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1914) Fritz von Loßberg (1914) Erich Ludendorff (1914) Albrecht Gustav von Manstein...
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    1914–1918. London: Arnold. p. 403. Ludendorff, 1919, II, p. 235. von Lossberg, Fritz (1939). Meine Tätigkeit im Weltkriege 1914–1918. Berlin: E. S. Mittler...
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    Conrad von Hötzendorf Karl Ludwig d'Elsa Hermann von Eichhorn Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Max Immelmann Maximilian von Laffert Fritz von Loßberg Charles...
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    von Armin the 4th Army commander and his chief of staff, Colonel Fritz von Lossberg preferred to fight to hold their remaining defences in the Flandern I...
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    Retrieved 2018-06-04. "Otto von Garnier". prussianmachine.com. Retrieved 2018-06-03. Lossberg, Fritz von (2017-08-17). Lossberg's War: The World War I Memoirs...
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