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Word: sponeck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Afrika Korps, finally agreed to surrender-but only to their old enemy, the Eighth Army. The First Army, then pressing the 90th, turned this proposal down, and fighting continued as the 90th fought southward toward the Eighth. In the end, the 90th's commander, General Count von Sponeck, surrendered to Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg, commander of the Eighth Army's New Zealanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Germans in Defeat | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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