Battle of Brody (1941)
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The Battle of Brody was a tank battle fought between the 1st Panzer Group's III Army Corps and XLVIII Army Corps and five mechanized corps of the Soviet 5th Army and 6th Army in the triangle formed by
A German Panzer III tank, belonging to the 13th Panzer Division, during the first days of Operation Barbarossa
A destroyed Soviet MiG-3 fighter plane during the first days of Operation Barbarossa
German soldiers examining an abandoned Soviet BT-7 tank
A German infantryman near a burning Soviet BT-5 tank in the distance
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
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Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Born into the Prussian noble family von Kleist, Kleist entered the Prussian Army in 1900 and comman
Battle of Brody (1941)
…ensured victory for the Wehrmacht despite overwhelming Red Army numerical and technological superiority. The 1st Panzer Group, led by Generaloberst Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, was ordered to secure the Bug River crossings and advance to Rovno and Korosten with the strategic objective of Kiev. It deployed two corps forward…
Kleist in 1940
Kleist (left) inspects a large iron and steel works in Ukraine recently taken over by his troops, 1941
Hungarian general Béla Miklós (2nd from left) and Kleist (with binoculars) at the Dnieper river, September 1941
Kleist greeting an Italian officer near Dnepropetrovsk, 1941