von Rundstedt

So von Rundstedt was, for once, ready to support Hitler, who, as we have seen, was by the last half of October leaning toward going into winter quarters.

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In late August he shifted resources to von Rundstedt to enable him to complete the conquest of Ukraine.

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Three months later von Rundstedt was appointed commander in chief of the armies in the west, so his disagreement with Hitler, far from dooming him as it would have with Stalin, only condemned him to a couple of years in France.

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He ordered von Rundstedt to hold his ground at all costs.

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For von Bock, at Army Group Center, it was Moscow, while for von Rundstedt at Army Group South, it was the resources of eastern Ukraine.

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The commander of Army Group South thereupon lost his temper and told Hitler his order was insane, either take it back or he, von Rundstedt, would resign.

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At the end of August, von Leeb was in the same position with respect to Leningrad, as was von Rundstedt with respect to Kiev and the Crimea.

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Guderian, whom Hitler had brought back from unemployment along with von Rundstedt and von Kluge, now suggested to Hitler that the easiest way to solve the problem was to shift Schörner to North, replacing him with Friessner.

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In the south, von Rundstedt had all of Ukraine south of the Dnieper, up to Dnepropetrovsk; from there the limit of the advance went back to the southwest: Odessa was under siege, but the Crimea and southeastern Ukraine was still in Soviet hands.

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He too felt he was poised to break through all the way to Moscow, but had to sit and watch as Hitler switched armored and air force units to von Rundstedt in the south.

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