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...Obedient Soldier. Karl Rudolph Gerd von Rundstedt was born in Ascherleben, the son of a Prussian major general. At 12, he was a military cadet; at 17, a lieutenant in Wilhelm II's army. He fought creditably on three fronts in World War I, and by 1929 was a lieutenant general. His first unsavory taste of politics came in 1932, when he was ordered by Chancellor von Papen to oust the Socialist ministers of Prussia; he obeyed. The ranking general when Hitler shortly came to power, von Rundstedt did nothing to hobble the Führer, acquiesced-however unwillingly...
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