4th Panzer Army
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The 4th Panzer Army, operating as Panzer Group 4 from its formation on 15 February 1941 to 1 January 1942, was a German panzer formation during World War II. As a key armoured component of the Wehrmac
Fall 1943, 4th Panzer Army in Southern Ukraine
Erich Hoepner (right) with commander of the SS Polizei Division, Walter Krüger, October 1941
During the Battle of Kursk
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1971 068 10, Erich Hoepner
Erich Hoepner
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Erich Kurt Richard Hoepner was a German general during World War II. An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare, he was a Wehrmacht Heer army corps commander at the beginning of the war,
4th Panzer Army
…during the Battle of Stalingrad, but later reconstituted. As part of the German High Command's preparations for Operation Barbarossa, Generaloberst Erich Hoepner was appointed to command the 4th Panzer Group in February 1941. It was to drive toward Leningrad as part of Army Group North under Wilhelm von Leeb…
Hoepner with Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb in 1941
Hoepner at the Volksgerichtshof