Top 5 German Marshals Who Died Before the End of World War II 

Yes. British and bombing...😢

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"My Soldiers are My Children." - Walter Model Right before his death. "Has everything been done to justify our actions in the light of history? What can there be left for a commander in defeat? In antiquity they took poison" "I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government" Honourable death of an honourable soldier. RIP

What a wonderful mass murderer.

MODEL WAS CRITICIZED FOR BEING VERY HARSH ON JUNIOR OFFICERS BUT VERY MUCH A FATHER FIGURE TO THE ENLISTED MEN. HIS PHILOSOPHY WAS VERY MUCH LIKE EISENHOWERS; "THE ENLISTED MEN DO ALL OF THE FIGHTING; BECAUSE OF THIS THEY DESERVE OUR UTMOST RESPECT. EISENHOWER HONESTLY WENT BALLISTIC WHEN HE FOUND OUT PATTON WAS PHYSICALLY ABUSING HIS SOLDIERS.

Considering what was the goal they were fighting for which was the conquest of lands inhabited by Slavic people's, starve ten's of millions of them and the enslavement of the balance, I need to remind myself of this whenever I start to feel too much sympathy for people who were in the process of murdering their way across Central Europe. I know that there were a great many conscripts, but still in all they did some awful deeds. Without the "clean Wehrmacht" the Einsatzgruppen would not have been able to kill as many poot souls as they did by supplying them both and with fresh victims as they conquered more territory.

@@johnjarpe9055 THE GOAL WAS THE PERFECTION OF THE HUMAN MIND AND BODY; SOMETHING YOU KNOW NOTHING OF I SEE; THE GERMAN SOLDIERS MADE AN INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE, YOUR NOT WORTHY TO HAVE THEM PISS ON YOU.

but was also a war criminal who used Tunisian Jews as human minesweeping devices forcing them to march into minefields to set them off. In 1940 he was responsible for the execution of at least 50 French POWs at Quesnoy, If he had not got involved in the July 20th plot there is a very good chance Rommel would have been in the dock at Nurenberg.

@@jonsouth1545 I would have a source for this. I'm actually very well-read on the subject, but I've never read or heard of it. Although there was a unit at this point, where there were also some Czech and Polish Jews, who were also through minefields, but these were under the supreme command of England and did this at night for espionage purposes. (unfortunately I only have German language sources on this special topic) I can't really imagine that with the 50 French either. Normally, a general has nothing to do with shooting 50 people.

@@jonsouth1545 Just attempts to smear his legacy.

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@@jonsouth1545 i consider myself a historian, but i never heard about that one, but i also dont believe it because rommel wasnt a devout nazi, and also didn't have any ill feelings towards jews, but definitely could have happend if he was forced by a higher ranking general, or hitler himself.

Wow , how he get it?

Wow is that in the States? What a piece of history

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An interesting fact about von Reichenau: he was, as you said, an ardent Nazi. But his wife was an ardent Anti- Nazi and was supporting Jews in Berlin by organizing hide outs, getting food and fake IDs, etc. . She married one of them after the war. Von Reichenau knew about all of this and his only reaction towards his wife was: If you get caught not even I can help you.

How come he was not one of Adolfs favourites?

Reichenau WAS possibly Hitler's FAVOURITE General.

@@Ben_Sahar I will quote Guderian, from Panzer Leader regarding speeches given by Goering, Goebbels and Hitler in November 1940: 'In the speeches of the three persons mentioned above, an almost identical train of thought was apparent, as follows..."the Party cannot place unconditional trust in the good faith of the army generals". '...as the allegations were directed primarily against the commander in chief of the army...the proper course was to approach Hitler from some other angle in order to urge him to withdraw these unjustified accusations. General von Rundstedt was unwilling to take any further action in the matter. in the next few days i visited a number of senior generals in an attempt to urge them to do something, but in vain. The last one I saw was Col Gen von Reichenau, whose good standing with Hitler and the party was well known. Reichenau informed me to my surprise that on the contrary, his relations with Hitler were anything but good, that he had in fact had serious quarrels with him. He sent a signal to the Chancellery, requesting an interview for me, and the next day I received an order to report to Hitler in Berlin.' 'Hitler listened with great seriousness to all I had to say. When I had finished he replied brusquely: " It's a question of (replacing) the commander in chief of the army...whom do you suggest?" I had thought up a whole list of general officers, who in my opinion were capable of filling that difficult appointment. I mentioned first Col Gen von Reichenau. Hitler refused this suggestion with the words: "Quite out of the question". His expression was unusually disagreeable as he said this, and I realised that Reichenau had in no way been exaggerating during our conversation when he described his relations with Hitler as bad.'

Von Reichenau was a Fucking monster. One of his subordinates was commanded by Paul Blobel to shoot and kill Eighty children ages one month to age Seven. Their parents were already dead but some pastors had approached him to point out that the slaughter was imminent. He appealed to Von Reichenau who replied that the policy was clear and that he should not have even written his appeal. So they found a local militia, got them so drunk that had to fire five or six times into the children. The Sixth Army murdered it's way across the Soviet Union and faced justice at Stalingrad.

My favourite show during grade 6! don't mistake American television for history though.

@@sslaytor Never have. Have seen way too many mistakes, even when I was 12.

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@@waracademy128 your welcome keep up your content!

His death was really cruel and painfull. They hanged him on a butcher hook like a huge piece of cattle meat.

@@johnfalstaff2270 and that disgusting Hitler was given the recordings to watch at his leisure.

@@roymartin500, I doubt Hitler ever watched that. Putin also does not show any interest how many of how his soldiers were dying in this senseless war with Ukraine.

We need a People's Court in the U.S. to get rid of the Crooks in out Government.

​@@scotttyson8661 agree

What about Erich Von Manstein? It was his plan that defended the French in 1940.

@@fatdaddyeddiejr Manstein was a brilliant tactician indeed. But like "soldier" on front nobody was like Rommel and Model.

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Von Mannstein. Great Hitler sacked him as Manstein could have extended the war into 1946 or even 1947. He kmew how to use troops to their greatest strength.

@@kniespel6243 Cutting Manstein way to short here. Manstein was equally at the front as Rommel, perhaps less interested in media. Manstein's counterattack at Charkov was a magnificent example of manouver combat.

rommel might be the best of this list, but manstein was the best of the best.

and field marshal Paulus

Um... those marshals who survived the war included von Rundstedt; von Kuechler; Busch; Schoerner; List; Ritter von Leeb; von Brauchitsch; Keitel; Sperrle; Milch; von Manstein; von Weichs; von Kleist; Paulus; Kesselring; Goering, and both Grand Admirals, Doentiz and Raeder. The only ones who didn't were von Witzleben; von Reichenau; Rommel; Model; von Bock; von Kluge; Ritter von Greim, and, due to cancer, von Richthofen.

I didn't know that General Model committed suicide, I always had assumed he was killed in combat

He did not design at the time, just produce.

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Nothing, Hitler’s mind was already made up: the man had to go

I think Romel was an intelligent man and was more than aware of an inevitable result under the circumstances. Guilty or not he would have been executed , there was no way out for him

He would have been executed because the verdict of death was already made before those 2 generals visited him.. Rommel made a good choice of taking the cynide to save his staff and family..

Not if you like mad with power corporals bent on world domination. Also this mad corporal believes he has Devine protection and his rule is predestined.

Especially in the Russian front

Sounds like a model general.

Bloody war criminal

@@kiriladamski387 Oh no, anyway :P.

@@veers2883 Only a 100% ,part of Nazi antihuman mashine. Learn real history.Good luck

@@kiriladamski387 I know history, because of that i will not agree with commie lover like you who see ''nazis'' and ''fascist'' everywhere, your problems with history knowledge about Walther Model and others are not mine so go to the books ''tawarish'' Kiril :).

Definitely, in those 7 months, he could have probably also had time to kickstart the Bundesliga.

Nobody was leading Germany out of the war. Unconditional surrender was all the allies would have allowed.

@@willnailer2118 and now allies got karma and will be minoritys in their country

100%. There was a reason the Nazis hated him, and ended up forcing his death. He wasn't even a participant in the attempts to overthrow the Nazis, but the fact he was a German loyalist rather than a Nazi, and probably would have accepted an interim government following such an overthrow, the Nazis saw him as even more dangerous than the nationalist conspirators themselves.

Lol no. And nothing tragic about an arrogant war criminal offing himself.

Of course Heydrich is not on the list. He was not a field Marshal, not even a general. He was not in the Wehrmacht and never commanded an army. Heydrich was in the SS and completely outside the scope of this video.

What.

Rommel was no saint as was involved in many war crimes both in France and in North Africa

How come? Just curious. He was good but "most underrated"? There are a heap of Generaloberst to lift along with him (Heinrici, Dietl, or why not Hoth!).

Also, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli. He was an Austrian Hungarian General who was made a German field marshal on 30 October 1940, He died 9 December 1941 aged 85.

Not a marshal. Not a 'von', either.

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Wdym the most detestable acts of war? They were just same as every other countries generals, doing their job

He was in line to become chancellor of Germany if the murder plot of Hitler had succeeded

So where was he during the siege, out on the steppe?

Very good analysis ..while some Of these were good soldiers …they had no moral courage …and rode the career carousel into wheels came off the Wehrmacht wheel and only then started to reconsider their attitudes to Hitler

Agreed

HA...HA... FELTÉTELES MODBAN??? IDIOTÁK VAGYTOK MIND.

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Já: smích v češtine

Another selfish idiot who wants all of the language in anglosajón. All of the languages are correct to explain the situation

It is just another shoddy work that is prevalent today.

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