biography
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Kluge, (Hans) Günther von
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pronunciation:
[klooguh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1944)
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| biography:
| German soldier, born in Poznan, WC Poland (formerly Posen, Prussia). In 1939 he carried out the Nazi occupation of the Polish Corridor, commanded the German armies on the cemtral Russian front (1942), and in July 1944 replaced Rundstedt as commander-in-chief of the Nazi armies in France confronting the Allied invasion, but was himself replaced after failing to stop the advance. He committed suicide after being implicated in the plot to kill Hitler. |
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