• Erich Marcks (6 June 1891 – 12 June 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He authored the first draft of the operational plan...
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    (Gerta) married Marcks' pupil Willy Andreas [de]. A cousin of Erich Marcks was the sculptor and graphic artist Gerhard Marcks. Marcks died, just a few...
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  • Marcks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Erich Marcks (1891–1944), German general Gerhard Marcks (1889–1981), German sculptor Greg...
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  • for portraying Alfred Jodl in Patton (1970). He also portrayed General Erich Marcks in The Longest Day (1962). Der Verlorene (1951) - Criminal Inspector...
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  • earlier military study carried out in the summer of 1940 by General Erich Marcks called the Operation Draft East. This report advocated the occupation...
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    August 1943 Succeeded by General der Artillerie Erich Marcks Preceded by General der Artillerie Erich Marcks Commander of LXXXVII. Armeekorps 1 August 1943...
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  • corps commander during the formation of the LXVI Reserve Corps was Erich Marcks, but Marcks was soon succeeded by Baptist Knieß on 12 November 1942. The LXVI...
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    Chiefs of the Generalstab 5 November 1939 – 10 December 1940 Generalmajor Erich Marcks 10 December 1940 – 19 January 1941 Generalmajor Wilhelm Hasse 19 January...
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    Bolshevism. With the successful end to the campaign in France, General Erich Marcks was assigned the task of drawing up the initial invasion plans of the...
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  • Panzertruppe Leo Geyr Von Schweppenburg Hans Kremer as General der Artillerie Erich Marcks Peter Kremer as General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf Thomas Thieme...
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    June 12, when the units withdrew under orders of General der Artillerie Erich Marcks. Generalleutnant Hellmich also dispatched the 3rd Battalion of the 243rd...
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  • British tutelage. Mitteleuropa also had its opponents inside Germany. Erich Marcks, a historian from Magdeburg and a member of SPD, had referred to "that...
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  • overcome and the British beachheads secured. Around 10:30 a.m. General Erich Marcks, commander of the German LXXXIV Corps to which the 21st Panzer Division...
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    Luftwaffe when this would be achieved. On 4 July, after asking General Erich Marcks to begin planning an attack on Russia, Halder heard from the Luftwaffe...
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    Americans, Romain Gary for the French, Noël Coward for the British and Erich Maria Remarque for the Germans. As their contributions to the finished screenplay...
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  • 1852) 1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (b. 1893) 1944 – Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891) 1946 – Médéric Martin, Canadian politician...
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    his mind to the invasion of the Soviet Union, commissioning General Erich Marcks to prepare preliminary plans. Although the Hitler-Stalin pact had served...
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    formations under his command as far forward as possible, ordering General Erich Marcks, commanding the 84th Corps defending the Normandy section, to move his...
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  • Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Indian author and academic (d. 1986) 1891 – Erich Marcks, German general in WWII who planned Operation Barbarossa (d. 1944) 1896...
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    Herbert Loch (1886–1976) Walter Lucht (1882–1949) Max Ludwig (1871–1961) Erich Marcks (1891–1944) Robert Martinek (1889–1944) Horst von Mellenthin (1898–1977)...
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    Commanders and leaders Matthew Ridgway Maxwell D. Taylor Paul L. Williams Erich Marcks † Wilhelm Falley † Strength (airlifted) 13,100 paratroopers 3,900 glider...
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    of Infantry Kurt von Briesen 101st Light Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Erich Marcks 97th Light Infantry Division - Mj. Gen. Maximilian Fretter-Pico 100th...
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    Heinrich Class, Hans Delbrück, W. E. B. Du Bois, Otto Hintze, Max Lenz, Erich Marcks, Friedrich Meinecke, Karl Peters, Gustav Schnürer, Georg Simmel and Friedrich...
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    Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann LXXXIV Corps under General der Artillerie Erich Marcks Allied forces attacking Utah Beach faced the following German units stationed...
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  • von Zangen on 1 April 1943. Zangen was succeeded as corps commander by Erich Marcks on 1 August 1943. With the Allied invasion imminent, LXXXIV Army Corps...
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  • following officers commanded the division: Generalmajor then Generalleutnant Erich Marcks (10 December 1940 - 26 June 1941) Generalleutnant Josef Brauner von Haydringen...
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    Alfred Doren, Veit Valentin, Heinrich Friedjung, Friedrich Meinecke and Erich Marcks, but the central role after 1890 was played by Otto von Bismarck, for...
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  • other high ranking German officers visited Baukommando Becker, including Erich Marcks, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Heinz Guderian. On 15 March 1943 Major Becker's...
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  • Malsen-Ponickau, SS General Hasso von Manteuffel, German Army General Erich Marcks, German Army General Benno Martin, SS General Emil Maurice, first Supreme...
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    (Geneva: Droz) 1987). L. J. Delaborde, Gaspard de Coligny (1879–1882) Erich Marcks, Gaspard von Coligny, sein Leben und das Frankreich seiner Zeit (Stuttgart...
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