biography
pronunciation:
[shpiydl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1987)
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| biography:
| German soldier, born in Metzingen, SW Germany. He served in World War 1, and by 1939 was senior staff officer. As Rommel's chief-of-staff during the Allied invasion of Europe (1944), he was imprisoned after the anti-Hitler bomb plot. In 1951 he became military adviser to the West German government. His NATO appointment as commander-in-chief of land forces, C Europe (1957–63), aroused wide controversy. |
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