Word: leeb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against France the team was together again: Leeb on the left, Rundstedt in the center, Bock on the right. In Russia, Leeb is attacking Leningrad in the north, Bock has been assigned Moscow in the center, and Rundstedt is working on the Ukraine to the south...
...field generals. They have conquered most of Europe, but very few people could have been blamed for not recognizing their names when Adolf Hitler praised them last week for their work in Russia: Field Marshals Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, Fedor von Bock, Wilhelm Joseph Franz Ritter von Leeb...
These three have been a team ever since 1935, when the Nazi Party reorganized the Reichswehr and divided the country into three Group Commands. Rundstedt held Group I (based on Berlin), Leeb held II (Cassel), and Bock held III (Dresden). Only two Army groups attacked Poland, but two of these three commanded them: Bock in the north, Rundstedt in the south...
...there is a type of top-ranking German general, these three are it. They look almost exactly alike (see cut}-heavily lined face, aquiline nose, snapping snake-eyes, lips tight and bitter. They are old: Rundstedt is 65, Leeb will be next month, Bock is 60. They are stiffly aristocratic: all three sport vons. None of them thinks much of the Nazis: Leeb and Rundstedt both retired temporarily in 1938, reportedly for political reasons, and ascetic Bock hates sensuous Goring. But all of them love soldiering and have a consuming sense of patriotic duty...