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    Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben (4 December 1881 – 8 August 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) in the Wehrmacht during...
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    of Staff of the German Army High Command (OKH); and Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben, a former commander of the German 1st Army and the former Commander-in-Chief...
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    to resign. Even after this, two of Rundstedt's friends, Generals Erwin von Witzleben and Erich Hoepner, remained involved in anti-Hitler plots and continued...
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  • Cross of Nazi Germany. It has been indicated von Sodenstern was part of a group, including Erwin von Witzleben, who proposed a coup against Adolf Hitler...
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    therefore sought out civilians and officers who opposed Hitler, such as Erwin von Witzleben, who dissuaded Tresckow from resigning from the Army, arguing that...
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    felt they needed the support of a field marshal on active duty. Erwin von Witzleben, who would have become commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht had the...
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    has also appeared in Valkyrie (2008) as anti-Hitler conspirator Erwin von Witzleben, The Wolfman (2010), F (2010), Burke and Hare (2010), Lord of Tears...
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    Eugen Anton Theophil von Podbielski Adolf Wild von Hohenborn Erwin von Witzleben Job von Witzleben (historian) Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen...
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    Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch, Generaloberst Franz Halder, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, and Generalleutnant Erwin von Witzleben. The working plan was...
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  • Army was activated on 26 August 1939, in Wehrkreis XII with General Erwin von Witzleben in command. Its primary mission was to take defensive positions and...
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    Generalfeldmarschall Erwin von Witzleben and in August 1943, Henning von Tresckow arranged for him to be an aide to Generalfeldmarschall Guenther von Kluge in an...
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    Erwin von Witzleben, Erich Hoepner, Paul von Hase, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Helmuth Stieff, Robert Bernardis, Friedrich Klausing, and Albrecht von...
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    feared at any moment his arrest". General Erwin von Witzleben together with the generals Wilhelm von Leeb and Gerd von Rundstedt, demanded an investigation...
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    and Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and soon came to detest Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. He offered his support to Witzleben for a planned coup...
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    handed over many officers who were involved, including Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben, to Roland Freisler's notorious People's Court. Around 7,000 people...
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  • Tresckow, General Ludwig Beck, Dr. Carl Goerdeler, and Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben. Stauffenberg proposes using Operation Valkyrie, which involves the...
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    9 (Oberst Hans von Sommerfeld) 1. Armee was based along the French border General der Infanterie Erwin von Witzleben 1. Armee Reserves 75. Infanterie-Division...
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    1941, Beck spent much time discussing with Goerdeler, Hassell and Erwin von Witzleben aspects of the proposed state after the successful overthrow of the...
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    Minister of War: Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces: Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben Commander in Chief of the Army:...
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  • the Chief of the General Staff, the OKH 1934–1938 Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben (1881–1944), Generalfieldmarshall in line to head all German armies...
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  • Messe Nord/ZOB station Erwin von Witzleben (1881–1944), German officer and leading conspirator in the 20 July plot Job von Witzleben (1783–1837), Prussian...
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  • a descendant of the Prussian general Job von Witzleben (1783–1837) and grand-nephew to Erwin von Witzleben. He was a member of the Hitlerjugend, holding...
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  • before taking up the post of chief of staff of the 1st Army under Erwin von Witzleben on 5 February 1940. With this association, Hilpert took part in the...
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  • Walther von Brauchitsch, Wilhelm Keitel, Gerd von Rundstedt, Fedor von Bock, Wilhelm von Leeb, Wilhelm List, Günther von Kluge, Erwin von Witzleben and Walter...
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  • Division Commanded by Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb First Army – Generaloberst Erwin von Witzleben Directly reporting: 197th Infantry Division Höh...
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    contact with the conservative anti-Nazi resistance in the army through Erwin von Witzleben, but did not commit himself as an active plotter. If his political...
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    the Reichswehr in 1924 and in 1929 was appointed as the adjunct to Erwin von Witzleben, a fellow anti-Hitler conspirator who would go on to be executed...
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    attacked and sentenced to death. Like other defendants, including Erwin von Witzleben, Hoepner was humiliated during the trial by being made to wear ill-fitting...
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    Allied invasion. When in Normandy, he managed to convince Field Marshal Erwin Rommel that the "rumours" Rommel had heard about atrocities on the Eastern...
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    Erwin von Witzleben (1881–1944) July 19, 1940 – Franz Halder (1884–1972) July 19, 1940 – Friedrich Dollmann (1882–1944) July 19, 1940 – Ewald von Kleist...
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