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    Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb (5 September 1876 – 29 April 1956) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) of the Wehrmacht during the Second...
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    Army Group North, commanded by Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb; on the right flank was Army Group South, commanded by Gerd von Rundstedt.[citation needed] The...
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  • Walther von Brauchitsch Heinz Guderian Franz Halder Albert Kesselring Ewald von Kleist Günther von Kluge Georg von Küchler Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Wilhelm List...
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    Makaryevo. On 17 January 1942, Küchler succeeded Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb as commander of Army Group North after the latter was relieved...
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    Wars. Leeb's older brother Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb was the Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. Leeb entered...
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    von Manstein, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, and Gerd von Rundstedt demanded an inquiry into the deaths of generals Kurt von Schleicher and Ferdinand von Bredow...
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    22 June 1941. Army Group North was commanded by Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb and staged in East Prussia. Its strategic goal was Leningrad, with...
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    River Neva to the Finns. Army Group North under Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb advanced to Leningrad, its primary objective. By early August,...
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    under General Fedor von Bock faced the Dutch and Belgian borders, while to his south Army Group C under General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb faced the French...
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  • commander of the army group throughout its first tenure of service was Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb,: 42  who had been reactivated from retirement upon the outbreak...
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    that was to drive toward Leningrad as part of Army Group North under Wilhelm von Leeb. On 30 March 1941, Hitler delivered a speech to about two hundred senior...
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    International (2009), as Wilhelm Wexler Angels & Demons (2009), as Cardinal Strauss Attack on Leningrad (2009), as Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Knight of Cups (2015)...
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  • guitarist Tom Leeb (born 1989), French actor, singer and comedian representing France 2020 Eurovision Song Contest Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876–1956),...
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    recording, while conversing with former Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb and former General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Guderian opined: "The fundamental...
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  • historian and statesman Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876–1956), German field marshal during World War II Karl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner (1800–1890), German...
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    Franz Ritter von Hörauf Max Hoffmann Fritz Ritter von Kraußer Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein Hermann von Kuhl Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Erich...
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    351 tons of bombs in 5,042 attacks from 10 to 20 August 1941. Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, the commander-in-chief of Army Group North, was shocked by the...
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    was besieged by the German Army Group North under Feldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. The routes operated in the winters of 1941-1942 and 1942-1943...
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  • Corps (Erich von Manstein) 269th Infantry Division SS Polizei Division 3rd Infantry Division (mot.) XXXVIII Corps (Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis) 58th...
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    was composed of the 6th and 18th Armies. Army Group C, (General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb) comprising 18 divisions of the 1st and 7th Armies, was to prevent...
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  • Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (d. 1959) 1876 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956) 1880 – José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino...
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    Infanterie-Regiment Großdeutschland (Oberstleutnant Hunold von Stockhausen). Char. Generaloberst z.V. Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Heeresgruppe C's only duty was to protect...
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    and 10th Army under Walther von Reichenau of Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd), elements of the 4th Army under Günther von Kluge of the Army Group North...
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  • 1938. He then became Chief of Staff of Army Group C under Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, which was responsible for defending the western border during the...
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    Panzer Division and took part in the invasion of Poland under Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. He was promoted to General in June 1940 after which he led the...
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    Adolf von Bonin Hans-Eberhardt Gandert Franz Halder Paul Hausser Erich Hoepner Hermann Köhl Günther Korten Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Walter von Reichenau...
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    the German Wehrmacht's Army Group North headed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb overran Courland, along with the rest of the Baltic littoral. During...
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    the Battle of France, Heinrici's command was part of General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's Army Group C. He commanded the XII Army Corps which was part of...
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    included Generals Heinz Guderian, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Gerd von Rundstedt, and one of the Holocaust's chief architects...
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    with the impossibility of maintaining the positions in the sector, Wilhelm von Leeb ordered the withdrawal during the night of December 7, hours before...
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