Generalfeldmarschall Model: Biographie Gebundene Ausgabe

Walter Model, Generalfeldmarschall since March 30, 1944, was considered to be a particularly skilled defensive strategist during the Second World War. Five times as a leader of the troops on the Eastern Front, after defeats and withdrawals, he not only restored the front, but also gave his soldiers new strength and new will to fight through his personal commitment: 1942 in the Rshew-Bogen, 1943 in the Orelbogen, 1944 first in the Baltic States, then in Eastern Galicia and then in Belarus. When the German Western army threatened to break up under the attack of the Allied invasion armies in the high summer of 1944, he once again stabilized the German front on the western border of the Reich and in South Holland. And when all possibilities of military defense in the Ruhr region were finally exhausted, he showed an unusual consequence as a soldier. He disbanded his army group himself to avoid a senseless struggle for despair and the destruction of the largest German industrial district. On April 21, 1945, he put an end to his life by his own hand, an example of the tragic entanglement of a soldier in a leading position who obeys a political leadership, even if it acts against all rules of reason and law . At the same time, however, it is also an example of the level of skill that is required to lead properly in withdrawals and on the defensive, while maintaining undiminished morale.
Feldmarschall Model was extremely popular with the frontline soldiers. Modeled on the tradition of German professional soldiers, Model was convinced that it could only be for the government to draw political consequences from military events. However, this fundamental view did not prevent him from unabashedly contradicting Hitler on military questions, and even from refusing to carry out commands that seemed counter to him.

Walter Görlitz (February 24, 1913 - October 14, 1991) is one of the most important German military historians of the 20th century. His study of the German General Staff was particularly well received internationally. He published the estates of the general field marshals of the German Wehrmacht Friedrich Paulus and Wilhelm Keitel. For the present biography of Generalfeldmarschall Models, he was able to evaluate his personal estate.
Hardcover: 272 pages
Language: German
15.9 x 3.5 x 21.8 cm