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Hermann Hoth (12 April 1885 – 25 January 1971) was a German army commander, war criminal, and author. He served as a high-ranking panzer commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II , playing a prominent role in the Battle of France and on the Eastern Front .
In October 1941, the army came under the command of Hermann Hoth, who was convicted post-war in the High Command Trial. [1] Hoth was an active supporter of the war of annihilation (Vernichtungskrieg ) against the Soviet Union. He called upon his men to understand the need for "harsh punishment of Jewry".
The Army Group's 2nd Panzer Group under Colonel General Heinz Guderian and the 3rd Panzer Group under Colonel General Hermann Hoth decimated the Soviet frontier defenses, defeated all Soviet counter-attacks and encircled four Soviet Armies of the Red Army's Western Front near Białystok and Minsk by 30 June. The majority of the Western Front ...
Hermann Hoth (1885–1971), commander of Panzer Group 3, Army Group Center, 17th Group Army and Army Group South; Waldemar Hoven (1903–1948), Buchenwald concentration camp doctor. Herbert Hübner (1902–1951), SS leader, deported people from Poland, sentenced to 15 years in prison at the Nuremberg RuSHA trial, released in 1951.
Command was transferred to general Hermann Hoth in June. As the operation progressed, Hitler divided Army Group South into two army groups. Army Group A which was composed of the German 17th Army and 1st Panzer Army and Army Group B which was composed of 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army.
Hermann Hoth attempts to reach the trapped men with his panzer army group, but Friedrich Paulus, commander of the forces in Stalingrad, refuses to disobey Hitler's order to stand fast, despite the pleas of his subordinates to break out and try to link up with Hoth. In the end, Hoth is forced to withdraw after learning that the Soviets have ...
Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben, SS General; Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben, SS Colonel; Benno von Arent, SS Colonel; Karl Astel, racial scientist and eugenicist; Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, SS General; Hermann Balck, German Army General; Rudolf Bamler, German Army General; Eleonore Baur, SS nurse and NSDAP member; Hans Baur, SS General; Heinrich ...
The XV Army Corps / XV AK (German: XV. Armee-Korps) was a corps level command of the German Army before and in the early stages of World War II.. It was set up on 10 October 1938.