Word: kleist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Ludwig von Kleist is a man of great pride. He comes of a noble Pomeranian family, the most famous of whom was Germany's great classical dramatist, Wilhelm von Kleist. He boasts 36 ancestors who held the rank of general in Prussian and Pomeranian Armies. And last week Colonel General Paul Ludwig von Kleist could boast that he himself was the first German general to be pushed around by the Russians in World...
Russian forces had caused Paul von Kleist to pick up his maps and binoculars and beat it from Rostov-on-Don 40 miles west to Taganrog, then toward Mariupol, 60 miles farther. Except for dismissing the whole affair as a diversion, Berlin spokesmen blushed and shut...
...present crop of generals was an Army Corps Chief of Staff in World War I. He will go down in German history as a hero because it was he who devised the break-through at Sedan early last summer, and it was his tank generals, Guderian and Kleist, who executed...
...Zerbrochene Krug," by Heinrich von Kleist, with Emil Jannings playing the leading role, will appear tonight at 9:30 and 11 o'clock at the University Theatre. This is one of the four classical comedies in German literature...