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    Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch (4 October 1881 – 18 October 1948) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) and Commander-in-Chief...
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  • Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) Chief Wilhelm Keitel, Army commander Walther von Brauchitsch, Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring, and Kriegsmarine commander...
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    Manfred Georg Rudolf von Brauchitsch (15 August 1905 – 5 February 2003) was a German auto racing driver who drove for Mercedes-Benz in the famous "Silver...
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    Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. Born in 1911, as the son of Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, he embarked on a military career. He took part in the invasion...
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    observed while on a visit that also included Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army. British reconnaissance flights...
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    where he served in staff and training roles, including under Walther von Brauchitsch in the army training department. In 1931, he was appointed as chief...
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    He was forced to resign on 4 February 1938. His replacement, Walther von Brauchitsch, had been recommended for the post by Fritsch. Hitler took advantage...
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    Adolf Wilhelm Bernhard von Brauchitsch (7 November 1876 – 21 January 1935) was a German army officer with the rank of major general. A very experienced...
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    von Brauchitsch (1876–1935) general. Margarete von Brauchitsch (1879–1939), designer. Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), field marshal. Georg von Brauchitsch...
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    Reichenau's appointment, and the post went to General Walther von Brauchitsch. Like most of the Army, von Rundstedt feared the growing power of the Sturmabteilung...
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    over the USSR. As a result of the failed offensive, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was dismissed as supreme commander of the German Army, with Hitler...
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    Heeres). After the Battle of Moscow, the OKH commander Field marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was removed from office, and Hitler appointed himself as Commander-in-Chief...
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    senior officers (Walther von Brauchitsch, Gerd von Rundstedt and Adolf Strauss) were transferred to Munsterlager to await trial. Brauchitsch died that October...
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    1939. On 4 February 1940, Mackensen wrote to then Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch: As a man becomes older, he has to watch carefully that age has...
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    February 1938: Walther von Brauchitsch succeeds Fritsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is granted cabinet rank. April 1939: Brauchitsch and Keitel...
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    On 5 November, Hitler informed Walther von Brauchitsch that he intended the invasion to begin on 12 November. Brauchitsch replied that the military had...
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    Army League (Deutscher Wehrverein) and came to know Walther von Brauchitsch, Franz Halder, and Gerd von Rundstedt. By the time World War I began in 1914...
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    qualify for the Infantry Assault Badge. It was instituted by General Walther von Brauchitsch on 1 June 1940. The decoration, designed by the Berlin-based firm...
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    adherents of the present Russian-Bolshevik system are to be spared." Walther von Brauchitsch also told his subordinates that troops should view the war as a...
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    frequent. The Commander-in-Chief of the German military, General Walther von Brauchitsch, concluded that his troops were committing "most serious infractions"...
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    the indecision of Army General Franz Halder and Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, and the failure of the Western powers to oppose Hitler's aggression...
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    offer. Peter Yorck von Wartenburg and Ulrich Schwerin von Schwanenfeld had urged him to become the adjutant of Walther von Brauchitsch, then Supreme Commander...
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    Walther Bothe (1891–1957), German nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German World War II field marshal Walther...
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  • the 1980s, Preiss turned to television, notably playing General Walther von Brauchitsch in the American TV miniseries Winds of War and War and Remembrance...
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  • Wolff and other high-ranking SS officers, as well as generals Walther von Brauchitsch, Franz Halder, and the Luftwaffe's Erhard Milch. The other prosecutors...
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    Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Admiral Erich Raeder, Hermann Göring, Wilhelm Keitel, and Walther von Brauchitsch, during which Hitler restated...
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    Wolfram Karl Ludwig Moritz Hermann Freiherr von Richthofen (10 October 1895 – 12 July 1945) was a German World War I flying ace who rose to the rank of...
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    Commander-in-Chief (Oberbefehlshaber) of the German Army, Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch. It could be awarded to members of infantry and Gebirgsjäger (mountain...
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    from command. In November 1939, Commander in Chief of the Army Walther von Brauchitsch appointed Küchler commander of the 18th Army, then being organised...
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    Werner Karl Otto Theodor von Haeften (9 October 1908 – 21 July 1944) was an Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht who took part in the military-based conspiracy...
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