Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz (German pronunciation: [ˈdiːtʁɪç fɔn ˈkɔltɪts]; 9 November 1894 – 5 November 1966) was a German general. Sometimes referred...

4th Infantry Division and other allied units entered the city. Dietrich von Choltitz, commander of the German garrison and the military governor of Paris...

move toward Paris, Adolf Hitler commands General Dietrich von Choltitz to destroy the city. Choltitz sends engineering teams to demolish the city's famous...

Hotzenplotz in The Robber Hotzenplotz, General Dietrich von Choltitz in Is Paris Burning? and Colonel Manfred von Holstein in Those Magnificent Men in Their...

von Knobelsdorff (30 Nov 1942 – 6 May 1943) General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz (6 May 1943 – 30 Aug 1943) General der Panzertruppe Otto von...

composer and organist Dietrich von Choltitz (1894–1966), German General and last commander of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944 Dietrich Eckart (1868–1923), German...

Government Printing Office. 1931. pp. 107, 149. "Dietrich von Choltitz - Trümmerfeldbefehl". www.choltitz.de. Dokument, Deutsches Historisches Museum "The...

directed by Adolf Hitler at his military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, or in another account at Hitler's chief of staff, General Alfred...

deutsche-kriegsgeschichte.de. Retrieved 2018-06-04. Choltitz, Timo von. "General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz". www.choltitz.de. Retrieved 2018-06-04. Rangliste...

including Afrika Korps commander Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Wehrmacht general Ferdinand Neuling, and Dietrich von Choltitz, the last wartime Governor of Paris, who...

ordered General Dietrich von Choltitz, the military governor of Paris, to demolish the tower along with the rest of the city. Von Choltitz disobeyed the...

by Wilhelm Fahrmbacher, who was on 15 June replaced in turn by Dietrich von Choltitz. By 24 July, the Allied landing ground had expanded to include Caen...

military governor, General Dietrich von Choltitz was to detonate these bombs, leaving Paris "lying in complete debris". Von Choltitz, however, did not carry...

5-part series The Wehrmacht. In the episode The Crimes, General Dietrich von Choltitz is quoted as saying in October 1944, We all share the guilt. We...

at Trent Park, one of General von Sponeck's subordinate senior officers, Colonel (later General) Dietrich von Choltitz, admitted frankly in a surreptitiously...

parts of the city. The German commander, General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz, was inclined to surrender, and did so to Leclerc and Henri Rol-Tanguy...

and the German LXXXIV Corps under the command of GeneralleutnantDietrich von Choltitz effectively utilized the bocage with defensive tactics. The German...

Général Leclerc and Henri Rol-Tanguy, he accepted the surrender of Dietrich von Choltitz at the Liberation of Paris. He was born Maurice Kriegel in Strasbourg...

in August 1944, but thanks to the decision of Commanding General Dietrich von Choltitz to surrender the city rather than fight, the palace was only minimally...

and the liberation of Paris took place on 25 August when general Dietrich von Choltitz accepted the French ultimatum and surrendered to General Philippe...

30 July 1944, he took over command of the LXXXIV Army Corps from Dietrich von Choltitz, but his Corps was surrounded and destroyed in the Falaise Pocket...

approval from superior command, in a manner similar to what General Dietrich von Choltitz had done in Paris two weeks earlier. Schwerin wrote a communique...

Dietrich von Choltitz, Commanding general and Wehrmachtbefehlshaber of greater Paris (German: Kommandierenden General und Wehrmachtbefehlshaber von Groß-Paris)...

never extradited. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Balck and Friedrich von Mellenthin participated in seminars and panel discussions with senior NATO...

of Paris under the German occupation Otto von Stülpnagel Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel Dietrich von Choltitz Military governors of Paris since 1944 Philippe...

LXXXIV Corps opposing the US forces in the Cotentin Peninsula. When Dietrich von Choltitz took command of LXXXIV Corps, Fahrmbacher returned to his command...

appoints General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz as military governor of occupied Paris. Hitler believes that Choltitz will obey his order that the...

Calder, artist Marc Chagall, artist Barbara Chase-Riboud, artist Dietrich von Choltitz, military governor of Paris, 1944–1945 André Citroën, industrialist...

decorated officer of the German Army who served in both WWI and WWII Dietrich von Choltitz (1894 in Gräflich Wiese – 1966 in Baden-Baden) a German General...

Eisenhower had planned to by-pass Paris while Hitler had ordered General Dietrich von Choltitz to destroy Paris rather than allow the city be liberated, stating...