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Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb

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759: 833: 848:. In early September, Leeb was confident Leningrad was about to fall. Having received reports on the evacuation of civilians and industrial goods, Leeb and OKH believed the Red Army was preparing to abandon the city. On 5 September, he received new orders, including the destruction of the Red Army forces around the city. By 15 September, Panzer Group 4 was to be transferred to Army Group Centre to participate in a renewed offensive towards Moscow. The expected surrender did not materialise although the renewed German offensive cut off the city by 8 September. Lacking sufficient strength for major operations, Leeb had to accept the army group might not be able to take the city but hard fighting continued along his front throughout October and November. 921: 44: 956: 150: 122: 645: 1957: 207: 1962: 1967: 1952: 136: 722:, Lithuanian auxiliaries and the men of the 16th Army outside Kaunas. Leeb noted in his diary afterwards that all he could do was to "keep one’s distance" and that both men agreed it might be "more humane" to sterilise the Jewish men. Leeb approved of the killing of Jewish men and claimed their crimes during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania justified it but that the killing of women and children might have been excessive. 852:
mid-November, the army group's war diary noted the artillery was preventing civilians from approaching the German lines. The operations led the command to ponder whether the shooting of unarmed civilians would lead to the "loss of inner balance". Senior officers were also concerned about "false" compassion that might affect the fighting qualities of their men. Forces under Leeb's command killed
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hostages and partisans to battle conditions and military necessity. Addressing the criminal orders that Leeb and other defendants had passed on, Laternser claimed that Leeb was a humane soldier who had neither seen nor transmitted such orders and had no opportunity to countermand them. He claimed that Leeb knew nothing of the activities of the
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fell on 28 August. Units under Leeb's command engaged in widespread plunder of foodstuffs as they advanced. Excessive looting prompted Leeb to issue orders in an attempt to limit looting and destruction of property because they would impede the exploitation of the conquered lands. Leeb's order of 16
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and its criminal application by subordinate units. He was sentenced to time served and was released after trial. The sentence was lighter than those of other convicted defendants. The judgement stated, "No criminal order has been introduced that bears his signature or stamp of his approval". After
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acted as the de facto lead defence counsel and often represented other parties in matters of procedure. He defended the "decency" of the German officer corps and asserted that it had displayed respect for the laws of war. The defence attributed the actions of the German military against civilians,
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the 1940 offensive through the neutral Low Countries and wrote, "The whole world will turn against Germany, which for the second time within 25 years assaults neutral Belgium! Germany, whose government solemnly vouched for and promised the preservation of and respect for this neutrality only a few
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As the most senior officer of those on trial, Leeb presented a closing statement on behalf of the defendants. He stated the accused never compromised their soldierly principles and presented them as victims of history: "No soldier in all the world has ever yet had to fight under such a load and
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By early August, Army Group North was seriously overextended, having advanced on a widening front and dispersed its forces on several axes of advance. Leeb estimated that he needed 35 divisions for all of his tasks, but he only had 26. The attack resumed on 10 August but immediately encountered
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Since September, the headquarters of the army group and OKH had pondered the fate of the city and what to do with the starving Soviet population. Leeb ordered the artillery to fire at any civilians trying to escape from the encircled city to kill them out of view of the frontline infantry. In
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A were a "necessary cleaning up operation" and that "soldiers should not concern themselves with political matters". Leeb received 250,000 Reichsmarks from the fund in September 1941 for his birthday. The same month,
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and indicated that in addition to his estate at Solln on the outskirts of Munich, he wanted an estate in the countryside. Hitler promptly presented him with one at Seestetten, near
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and to capture Leningrad. Leeb was one of more than 200 senior officers who on 30 March 1941 attended a speech in which Hitler laid out his plans for an ideological
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August 1941 stated that "the start-up work of the economic authorities is being rendered impossible by the senseless 'organisations' of the troops".
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Boog, Horst; Förster, Jürgen; Hoffmann, Joachim; Klink, Ernst; Müller, Rolf-Dieter; Ueberschär, Gerd R., eds. (1998). "The Army and the Navy".
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A, in a report to Berlin praised Army Group North for its exemplary co-operation with his men in murdering Jews in the Baltic states.
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Soviet resistance stiffened significantly as the army group crossed the Latvian–Russian border in early July 1941. At the same time,
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fund, visited the headquarters of Army Group North. He told Leeb's staff that the pogroms against and the murder of the Jews by
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without permission from OKH. Leeb gained approval for the measure the following day in a personal meeting with Hitler in the
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in the 1950s and the 1960s. Leeb was found guilty on one of four charges; he was convicted of transmitting the
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to power, Leeb commanded the military district covering Bavaria. In July 1938, Leeb was given command of the
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and its criminal application by subordinate units and sentenced to three years' imprisonment time served.
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The last rail connection to Leningrad was cut on 30 August, when the German forces reached the
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would not affect his operations. In contrast to those expectations, the marshy terrain around
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Troops of the Ideological War: The Task Forces of the State Police and the SD 1938–1942
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by 1 July. Leeb had jurisdiction over the area of military operations and over the
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tragedy". His statement foreshadowed the narrative of victimisation prevalent in
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Black Marks: Hitler's Bribery of his Senior Officers During World War II
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was no longer to support Army Group North and was to focus solely on
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in his area of command and anyway had no jurisdiction to stop them.
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on 20 August, severing the rail link between Leningrad and Moscow.
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against the civilian population and closely cooperated with the SS
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strong opposition around Luga. Leeb's forces were able to take
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and fierce Red Army counterattacks prevented a quick advance.
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weeks ago". During the battle, his troops broke through the
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rapidly advanced through the Baltic states by capturing
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and the campaign in Serbia. In 1915, he was awarded the
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On 15 December 1941, in the midst of the crisis of the
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which granted him the title of nobility. During the
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Between 1907 and 1913, he attended the 1297: 1285: 1088: 1015:is a title, translated approximately as 550:, where he distinguished himself in the 2569:German Army World War II field marshals 2518: 2490: 1165: 1100: 1002: 981:. He died of a heart attack in 1956 in 840:at an observation post, 11 October 1941 526:in 1895 and served in China during the 502:. He was convicted of transmitting the 469:. Units under Leeb’s command committed 1415:; Förster, JĂĽrgen; Hoffmann, Joachim; 1357: 1345: 1333: 1321: 1309: 1273: 1213: 1076: 1064: 1037: 2461:The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality 1731:The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality 1237: 1225: 1201: 1189: 1177: 1129: 1112: 820:on 17 August. The army group reached 7: 2564:German Army personnel of World War I 1659:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 1636:The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 1508:The Destruction of the European Jews 1369: 1153: 1052: 931:Leeb was tried by the United States 712:. 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Index

Wilhelm von Leeb

Landsberg am Lech
Kingdom of Bavaria
German Empire
FĂĽssen
Bavaria
West Germany
German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Bavarian Army
Reichswehr
German Army (Wehrmacht)

Generalfeldmarschall
12th Army
Army Group C
Army Group North
Boxer Rebellion
First World War
Second World War
Battle of France
Operation Barbarossa
Baltic Operation
Advance on Leningrad
Siege of Leningrad
Military Order of Max Joseph
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Emil Leeb

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