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
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
Ruhr pocket
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The Ruhr pocket was a battle of encirclement that took place in April 1945, on the Western Front near the end of World War II in Europe, in the Ruhr Area of Germany. Some 317,000 German troops were ta
Walter Model
…by the end of the war after the German defeat at the Battle of the Bulge. In the aftermath of the defeat of Army Group B and its encirclement in the Ruhr Pocket, Model took his own life on 21 April 1945. Otto Moritz Walter Model was born in Genthin, Saxony, the son of Otto Paul Moritz Model, a music teacher at…
An American soldier at Rheinwiesenlager guards a massive crowd of German prisoners captured in the Ruhr pocket