Hans Speidel
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Hans Speidel was a German general who successively served in the armies of the German Empire, Nazi Germany and West Germany. The first general officer of the Bundeswehr, he was a key player in West Ge
Speidel in 1944
Speidel with Erich von Manstein August 1943
Speidel with Erwin Rommel, April 1944
November 1955 (left to right): Adolf Heusinger, future Chief of Staff of the Bundeswehr; Theodor Blank, Minister of Defence, West Germany; and Speidel
Walter Model
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Otto Moritz Walter Model was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best known as a practitioner
Hans Speidel
…Group B, Field Marshal Günther von Kluge. On 26 August 1944, Speidel answered the phone when Alfred Jodl, the OKW chief of staff, called Field Marshal Walter Model, commander in chief of the western front, with Hitler's order to start targeting Paris immediately with V1 and V2 rockets. Model was not in. Speidel…
Model, c. 1942/43
Model (centre) on the Eastern Front, July 1941
Model with the overall commander of the 2nd Panzer Army and his direct superior, Heinz Guderian, in 1941
German armoured vehicles during Operation Citadel, summer 1943