biography
| name: |
Manstein, (Fritz) Erich von
|
pronunciation:
[manshtiyn]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1887–1973)
|
| biography:
| German field marshal, born in Berlin, Germany. At the outset of World War 2 he became chief-of-staff to Rundstedt in the Polish campaign, and in France was the architect of Hitler's Blitzkrieg. In 1941 he was given command of an army corps on the Eastern Front, and after the disaster of Stalingrad, staged a successful counter-attack at Kharkov, though he failed to relieve Paulus's Sixth Army. Imprisoned as a war criminal in 1945, he was released in 1953. |
|
|
