1st Army (Wehrmacht)
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The 1st Army was a World War II field army.
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1978 043 13, Erwin v. Witzleben
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 2004 004 05, Johannes Blaskowitz
Image: Joachim Lemelsen (1888 1954)
Image: Hermann Foertsch Nuremberg Trial defendant
Erwin von Witzleben
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Job Wilhelm Georg Erdmann Erwin von Witzleben was a German Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. A leading conspirator in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was designated to become Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht in a post-Nazi regime had the plot succeeded.
Field Marshal von Witzleben in 1940 or 1941
Witzleben (r.) with Reichswehr Generaloberst Wilhelm Heye, c. 1930
Hitler, Witzleben and SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Field Marshals Rundstedt and Witzleben in France, March 1941