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Paulus also forbade his soldiers from standing on top of their trenches in order to be shot by the enemy. [18] Shortly before surrendering, Paulus sent his wedding ring back to his wife on the last plane departing his position. He had not seen her since 1942 and would not see her again, as she died in 1949 while he was still in captivity. [19] [20]
While on the way to the German front lines with a small team to assassinate the commander of the German Army at the Battle of Stalingrad, Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus, Chernova was badly wounded in her abdomen when the woman ahead of her stepped on a land mine. Chernova was admitted to a hospital in Tashkent and later recovered. She had ...
General Friedrich Paulus, head of the Operations Branch of the OKH, arrived on 25 April to review the situation. [132] He was present for a second failed attack on the city on 30 April. On 4 May, Paulus ordered that no further attempts should be made to take Tobruk via a direct assault. [133]
Elena Rosetti-Solescu (1889–1949), Princess, wife of field marshal of the 3rd Reich, Friedrich Paulus Alexandru Rosetti (1895-1990), Prince and linguist See also
German casualties were 147,200 killed and wounded and over 91,000 captured, the latter including Field Marshal Paulus, 24 generals and 2,500 officers of lesser rank. [21] Only 5,000 would survive Soviet internment and return to Germany after the war.
On 28 June 1942, Bock's offensive split the Russian front into fragments on either side of Kursk. Three armies (Weich's 2nd Army, Hoth's 4th Panzer, and Paulus' 6th Army)—along with 11 panzer divisions—fanned out toward Voronezh and the Don River. Paulus' armoured divisions reached the Don on either side of Voronezh on 5 July.
Paul von Hindenburg, the future Generalfeldmarschall and President of Germany, was his uncle; Hindenburg's wife, Gertrud, was the sister of Hedwig and Helene. [4] Manstein attended the Imperial Lyzeum, a Catholic Gymnasium in Strasbourg, from 1894 to 1899. [5] Then he entered the cadet corps.
Friedrich Paulus immediately relieved him of command of his three divisions (the 100th, 71st and 295th Infantry Divisions). [3] [4] A few days later, Seydlitz fled the German lines under fire from his own side with a group of other officers. [5] He was taken into Soviet custody, where he was interrogated by Captain Nikolay Dyatlenko. [6]