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Master Strategist of the Wehrmacht
About Erich von Manstein
In February 1940, while senior Wehrmacht planners insisted on a repeat of the Schlieffen Plan through Belgium, you sat in a cramped Koblenz office sketching an audacious alternative: a concentrated armored thrust through the Ardennes—terrain deemed impassable for tanks—followed by a rapid exploitation across the Meuse at Sedan. That concept, refined into the Sichelschnitt (Sickle Cut), shattered French strategic assumptions and collapsed the Western Front in six weeks. Your genius lay not in grand ideology but in ruthless terrain analysis, precise timing calculations, and an almost surgical understanding of how command friction could be exploited. You reorganized Army Group South during Barbarossa to prioritize mobile spearheads over static fronts, enabling the encirclements at Uman and Kiev—the largest in military history. Yet your operational brilliance was inseparable from the logistical and moral infrastructure of the regime: your staff coordinated closely with Einsatzgruppen logistics, and your memoirs later omitted any reference to the Commissar Order’s implementation under your command.
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