Biography of the Wehrmacht officer

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In total, 74 million were mobilized. The Kremlin made a separate peace with the Germans, the so -called Brest world, according to which Germany annexed Poland, the Baltic states, part of Belarus and Transcaucasia. In addition, Russia pledged to pay 6 billion. From the very beginning of this crazy war, the Russian Empire actually acted contrary to its geopolitical interests, for which it received a revolution and lost its statehood.

Neglecting the most common opinion that history does not have a subjunctive mood, I venture to assume that the Russian Empire had been in that world massacre on one side of the barricade with Germany, the course of history would be completely different: the Bolsheviks would not have seized power in Russia, and the socio-economic conditions would not have developed the seizure of the National Socialists Adolf Hitler.

Danzig Gdansk was declared a free city. Until February, Memel Klaipeda had a special status and was subsequently annexed to Lithuania. The issue of rejection of Schleswig, the southern part of East Prussia and Upper Silesia was to be solved by plebiscite. The Saar region passed for 15 years under the management of the League of Nations, and then its fate was to be decided by the will of the people.

Germany was obliged to observe the independence of Austria, recognized the independence of Czechoslovakia and Poland. On the left bank of the German Rhine and the section of the right bank of the river 50 km wide, in the so -called Rhine Demilitarized Zone, according to the agreement, it was forbidden to place enterprises of the defense [] industry, maintain armed forces and build defensive structures.

The colonial possessions of Germany were divided between the victorious powers. In addition, Germany was obliged to pay reparations. Thus, the foundations of the future territorial claims of the Third Reich to Europe were laid down by the military articles of the contract forbade Germany to have the General Staff, Air Force, Tanks, anti -aircraft and anti -tank artillery, submarines.

The land army was limited by thousands of soldiers, and the officer corps should not exceed the person created on the basis of the Versailles Agreement, the so -called temporary Reichswehr consisted of the Ground Army and Navy. Under the sign of the Office of the Troops of the Ministry of the Reichswehr, in fact, the General Staff prohibited by the peace treaty was hidden.

The humiliated Germany, plundered to the last thread, began to prepare for the new war, concluding a secret military agreement with the government of the USSR. The future “genius of tank attacks”, Gainz Guderian, studied in one of the secret tank schools in Kazan, known under the code name “Kama”. The latest equipment and weapons systems were tested at secret training grounds. After Hitler came to power in the year, Germany left the League of Nations, and in denunciation of the military articles of the Versailles treaty.

The number of the Wehrmacht was already 3 million. Adolf Hitler proclaimed himself the supreme commander of the [] Wehrmacht, and Werner von Blomberg became the first commander of the Armed Forces of the Reich. For plans for remilitarization of the Rhine zone and in connection with his anniversary, Hitler made Blomberg in Field Marshals on April 29. So the summer general became the first officer of the Wehrmacht, who was awarded the highest military rank in the German army.

With this title, 19 Wehrmacht officers were awarded along with the Luftwaffe Field Marshals there were 25, but we will only talk about the Ground Forces. Hitler was very sparingly disposed of the Marshal's wands, and Blomberg was in proud loneliness until July 19, at a reception in the Reichstag to commemorate the victory over France, made 9 senior officers at once in Marshals.

Paulus received the Marshal rod on the day of the surrender of the 6th Army in Stalingrad, and Hitler vowed not to appropriate the highest military rank "who betrayed him to the generals." The Field Marshals of the Third Reich were very different people in education, upbringing, ideology, abilities, among them were lucky and losers, Nazis and anti-Nazis, aristocrats and natives from the lower classes, but they all entered the military elite and commanded the strongest army of the world by the beginning of the 2nd World War.

However, about everything and about everyone in order he served in the General Staff during the 1st World War. From the beginning he served in the Reichswehr, and in became a military minister. He stood at the origins of the creation of the Wehrmacht. Was among the ancestors of the Luftwaffe and Tank Forces. Blomberg was not a convinced Nazi, he became him from conformism.

In words, Hitler declared the Army’s apolitics: “I do not appoint my Hauliters to the commanders of the armies, but I do not allow soldiers to climb into politics.”But in fact, he inspired orders similar to those that he signed in von Blomberg. Blomberg also issued an order prohibiting the soldiers and officers of the Reichswehr to use Jewish stores.

In the army, they appreciated him for prudence and wellness, but did not like for Prussian arrogance and arrogance, for which they nicknamed the “stuffy lion” and “Siegfried with a monocle”. An unheard of scandal for that time is associated with his name. The widowed Marshal married a young Eve Grun to the candidacy of the bride was approved by the Fuhrer himself. After some time, it turned out that the young wife was at one time arrested for theft, was engaged in prostitution and posed for pornographic cards.

Hitler forbade Blomberg to appear in the Reich Chancellery and resigned him, but this did not prevent the Führer subsequently responded about the first and only military minister [] in his government with well -known respect. After the surrender, Blomberg was arrested by the allies and died in the Nuremberg investigative prison from cancer. Reichenau was born in the Prussian officer family.

During the 1st World War he served in the General Staff and fought on the Western Front. He joined Hitler, rather, not because he was inspired by the ideas of National Socialism, but because he was a convinced anti-communist. B was the head of one of the departments of the military ministry. He stood at the origins of the Wehrmacht education. He took part in the secret revival of the German army and visited the USSR along with von Blomberg.

On August 2, the death of Hindenburg opened Hitler's path to unlimited power. Reichenau went down in the history of the Third Reich due to the fact that he compiled the text of the oath for loyalty to the new "Reich Scanler and the Fuhrer of the entire German people." Reichenau translated the works of the British expert on Liddel Hart and in every possible way contributed to the development of the new kind of troops in Germany.

He began the Polish campaign by the commander of the Army. He was promoted to Field Marshals in the year. On the Eastern Front he fought near Kyiv, Belgorod [] and Kharkov. In December, he took office as commander of the Army Group South instead of Rundstedt's reserve of the Fuhrer. The aircraft with Field Marshal made a forced landing and Reichenau received serious traumatic brain injuries.

All this led to death. Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau was one of Hitler's most thinking and cruel military leaders. He approvingly related to the policy of the genocide in the occupied territories, collaborated with the SS. He served in the Reichswehr. He commanded the Army Group North during the Polish campaign. He was promoted to Field Marshals as part of a large group of officers in the Eastern Front commanded the Army Group Center.

B was appointed commander of the Army Group South. Hitler remained dissatisfied with the actions of the von [] Boka near Kharkov, removed from his post and enlisted in the reserve. For energy and determination, he received the nickname "Kustrin Torch" in the troops. A typical Prussian officer who was contempt to Hitler and National Socialism. He rejected the proposal to take part in the officer conspiracy against Hitler.

In his book “Officers against Hitler,” von Shlabrendorf characterizes him as a conceited and selfish “Prussian”, which, in general, corresponds to reality. The only German field marshals who died during the hostilities: on May 4 he went to Hamburg to Gross-Admiral Denitsa, who had formed a new government. He served in the General Staff, took part in hostilities on the Western Front during the 1st World War.

He served in the Reichswehr and had the rank of lieutenant general. After the removal of Frich accused of homosexuality, he was appointed chief of the ground forces in the city of his name connected the second most volume scandal after the “Blubberg case”: the military career of von Brauich was also threatened because of the woman. He was going to divorce his wife and marry Charlotte Ruruffer, the daughter of the Silesian judge.

He received the Marshal's rod at a reception in the Reichstag B was one of those who opposed the opening of the Western Front. The personal merit of von Brahich is the adoption by the Wehrmacht MM anti -aircraft and anti -tank guns. In May, he was captured and taken to England. Then the British returned him to Germany, where he died in the hospital of the investigative prison of Hamburg.

He fought in Belgium during the 1st World War. After the war, he became one of the officers of the Weimar Republic. He took an active part in the revival of the Armed Forces of Germany. At the end of the 10th and beginning of the 10ths, he repeatedly visited the USSR in connection with a secret military assistance agreement. In Hitler he appointed him [] the chief of staff of the OKB, and awarded the title of Field Marshal.

Keitel practically did not develop operational-tactical plans, he went down in the history of the 2nd World War as the author of the most inhuman and barbaric orders on the Wehrmacht. He became the only Field Marshal of the Reich, sentenced to death by hanging in the Nuremberg process.