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    Kurt Zeitzler (9 June 1895 – 25 September 1963) was a Chief of the Army General Staff in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Zeitzler was...
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    acting Chief of the General Staff for two weeks in 1944 following Kurt Zeitzler's resignation. That year, Heusinger was accused of involvement in the...
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    September Hitler replaced Halder as Chief of Staff of the OKH with Kurt Zeitzler and retired him to the Führer Reserve. On 23 July 1944, after the failed...
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  • in A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter (1981), and German Nazi figures Kurt Zeitzler in the miniseries War and Remembrance (1988) and Hermann Göring in the...
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    active duty and led the XXII Motorised Corps in the Invasion of Poland. Kurt Zeitzler, the future Chief of the Army General Staff, served as his Chief of...
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    Propaganda and Public Relations Office: Hasso von Wedel – Albrecht Blau – Kurt Dittmar Inspector General of Armoured Troops (Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen):...
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  • Group B in December 1942 made the withdrawal critically urgent and Kurt Zeitzler was at last allowed to order the retreat. However, Hitler continued...
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    (1890–1960) February 1, 1944 – Walter Weiß (1890–1967) February 1, 1944 – Kurt Zeitzler (1895–1963) March 1, 1944 – Ferdinand Schörner (1892–1973) April 1,...
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    advising Hitler on the Eastern Front. He replaced General of the Infantry Kurt Zeitzler, who had abandoned the position on 1 July after losing faith in Hitler's...
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    Ferdinand Schörner Hans-Georg von Seidel Karl Weisenberger Albert Wodrig Kurt Zeitzler Arthur Zimmermann 2nd Class Eugen-Heinrich Bleyer Eckhard Christian...
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  • Kavallerie Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Kurt Zeitzler) XIV Corps – General der Infanterie Gustav Anton von Wietersheim 2nd...
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    Ukraine. On 14 June, the Chief of Staff of Army Group Centre told General Kurt Zeitzler, the Chief of the Army General Staff, that "...the Russian concentration...
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    1942, when he was dismissed after frequent disagreements with Hitler. Kurt Zeitzler was a German general and the chief of the OKH, from 1942 until July...
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  • Captain Schwarz Barbara Steele as Elsa MacMahon Peter Vaughan as General Kurt Zeitzler Dieter Wagner (de) as Heinrich Himmler Mills Watson as Chief Derringer...
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    Aschau in 1998 Effective place of Heinz Winkler (chef) (born 1949), cook Kurt Zeitzler, chief of the Army General Staff of the Wehrmacht, died here in 1963...
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    Erich Kurt Richard Hoepner (14 September 1886 – 8 August 1944) was a German general during World War II. An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured...
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    Julius Streicher (image) Franz Ritter von Epp Christian Wirth (image) Kurt Zeitzler (image) Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (image) Ivan Bagramyan (image)...
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  • staff and fled south to surrender to the American forces. Generalmajor Kurt Zeitzler (creation – 24 April 1942) Generalmajor Ernst-Felix Fäckenstedt (24...
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    begin on 3 May or shortly thereafter. The directive was drafted by Kurt Zeitzler, the OKH Chief of Staff. For the offensive to succeed it was deemed...
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  • Vogel, Kurt Zeitzler is also said in the literature to have refused a donation, but this, too, cannot be found in archival sources. Zeitzler was among...
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    1 September 1938 24 September 1942 4 years, 23 days 3 Zeitzler, KurtGeneraloberst Kurt Zeitzler (1895–1963) 24 September 1942 10 June 1944 1 year, 260 days...
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    Hitler † Wilhelm Keitel Alfred Jodl Walther von Brauchitsch Franz Halder Kurt Zeitzler Hermann Göring Hans Jeschonnek Wilhelm von Leeb Fedor von Bock Gerd...
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    1930 – Wilhelm Heye (1869–1946), Chief of the Oberste Heeresleitung. 1934 – Kurt Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord (1878–1943), Chief of the Oberste Heeresleitung...
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  • – General Wilhelm Adam (second film) Vladimir Chernyavsky – General Kurt Zeitzler Rostislav Plyatt – General Hermann Hoth Sergei Blinnikov – Alexander...
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  • came, Adair notes, from the Chief of the German General Staff, General Kurt Zeitzler, who claimed early in November that "the Russians no longer have any...
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  • September 1942 Succeeded by position abolished Preceded by Generalmajor Kurt Zeitzler Chief of Staff OB West 24 September 1942 – 9 September 1944 Succeeded by...
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    eventually halted due to Soviet offensives elsewhere on the front. Kurt Zeitzler, the newly appointed chief of the Army General Staff, eventually got...
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    (General of Cavalry Ewald von Kleist, Chief of Staff: Brigadier-General Kurt Zeitzler) XIX Korps (General of Cavalry Heinz Guderian) 1st Panzer Division (Major-General...
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  • on 6 January 1943 – on the same day that Paulus signalled to General Kurt Zeitzler: "Army starving and frozen, have no ammunition and cannot move tanks...
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    Cavalry Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Chief of Staff Brigadier-General Kurt Zeitzler) XIX Corps (General of Cavalry Heinz Guderian) 1st Panzer Division (Major-General...
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