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,
Hoepner in 1939
Hoepner with Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb in 1941
Hoepner (right) with commander of SS Polizei Division, Walter Krüger, in October 1941
Hoepner at the Volksgerichtshof
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
Erich Hoepner
…Heer army corps commander at the beginning of the war, leading his troops during the invasion of Poland and the Battle of France. Hoepner commanded the 4th Panzer Group on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. During the invasion of Poland, he resisted mistreatment and…
Fall 1943, 4th Panzer Army in Southern Ukraine
During the Battle of Kursk