Word: leeb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, 68, lizard-eyed besieger of Leningrad...
...must also state that the defeat in White Russia is not the only example of Hitler's ineptitude as a commander. When Field Marshals von Leeb, List, von Rundstedt, von Bock and von Brauchitsch, Colonel General Haider and many others attempted to point out these mistakes Hitler dismissed them from their posts. . . . The newer generals, however, such as Rommel, Dietl, Schorner, Keitel and others who had not gone through a long military schooling failed to perceive these mistakes...
...time wrongly indicated-actually free the city. Until this month, German shells tore daily into Leningrad's brick-and-mortar flesh, and its defenders rode to the front in streetcars. More than a million had died of cold and hunger since Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's army first besieged the city in 1941. Last week, after their long torture, the survivors of Leningrad could hardly believe that the siege had ended. Already there was talk of making the city beautiful again. But on many a wall a sign still warned: "Citizens, this side of the street...
...siege of Leningrad was not the longest in history,* but it was far & away the longest in World War II. The Nazis termed Leningrad "a doomed city" on Aug. 21, 1941, when Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb captured the fortress of Schlüsselburg on the southern tip of Lake Ladoga, thus completing a 40-mile semicircular chain south of the city. The Finns pressed down the Karelian Isthmus from the north, leaving the Russians only Lake Ladoga as a link with the rest of the Soviet Union...
Before the Red Army had a chance to dig in, Leeb sent 300,000 men against the city's outer defenses. They were repelled by Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, whose forces included thousands of women and factory workers. During the next year the Germans hammered the city with 52 infantry, four motorized and four tank divisions, some 6,000 heavy guns, not counting thousands of machine guns, mortars and planes. Shells were lobbed into the city almost daily; hardly a day or night was free of air raids. Destroyed early in the siege were warehouses packed with a three-year...