Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German news agencies announced the Wehrmacht's final line-up of top commanders to oppose the invasion. Contrary to Nazi party rumor, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, 68-year-old, frosty-eyed Junker veteran of the "old Army," stayed on as supreme commander in the west...
Directly under him are two of Germany's younger generals: Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz to command the front-line defense of the Atlantic Wall; Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to lead the interior army of shock and maneuver which must be thrown wherever the main Allied effort develops...
...Luftwaffe in the west is to be led by balding Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, veteran air general, but his command, too, is completely under Rundstedt's direction. The Germans unquestionably plan to use their own tough, mobile airborne troops to meet Allied airborne thrusts, and this phase of the campaign will be commanded by Lieut. General Kurt Student, professionally respected paratroop leader who planned and executed the Crete invasion...
...Field Marshal Blaskowitz' appointment was regarded as a special triumph for Rundstedt. After an outstanding military performance in the Polish campaign, Blaskowitz led an Army group during the Battle of France. But he later quarreled with Hitler's judgment (reportedly over Gestapo excesses which were complicating...
...Marshal Stalin said Poland is going to play a very important role in Europe. He declared it in the interests of the Soviet Union that Poland be strong...