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If field marshals such as Manstein and Guderian had been allowed to practice the elastic defence wich they advocated the german army would not have been wiped out in detail.
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Perhaps the most compelling questions surrounding Manstein's career involve the moral imperatives of military leadership.
Not a Fanatic, Also Not Blind Tom Nagorski 2011
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As the German magazine Der Spiegel put it in its June 1973 obituary, Manstein embodied both the degeneration and downfall of the Prussian-German military caste.
Not a Fanatic, Also Not Blind Tom Nagorski 2011
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The confrontation is one of the better moments in "Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General," Mungo Melvin's interesting if flawed biography of the master strategist and military commander who fought in two wars, on fronts from the Somme to Stalingrad.
Not a Fanatic, Also Not Blind Tom Nagorski 2011
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Three months later Manstein was relieved of his command.
Not a Fanatic, Also Not Blind Tom Nagorski 2011
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Hitler, Manstein later recalled, stared at me with a look which made me feel he wished to crush my will to continue.
Not a Fanatic, Also Not Blind Tom Nagorski 2011
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It did not help Manstein's case that he took a lawyerly approach to the postwar questions: He said he could not have known about all the battlefield "transgressions" and could not have joined an organized opposition to Hitler, given the code of military honor.
Not a Fanatic, Also Not Blind Tom Nagorski 2011
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No court ever tied Manstein directly to a specific atrocity.
Not a Fanatic, Also Not Blind Tom Nagorski 2011
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It was Manstein who planned the 1940 Ardennes offensive that helped Germany to victory in France; two years later, he led the land-sea-and-air attack in the Crimea, conquering the great bastion of Sevastopol in one of the most inventive sieges of modern warfare.
Not a Fanatic, Also Not Blind Tom Nagorski 2011
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At Nuremberg, Manstein argued that he had served his nation, not Hitler or Nazism.
Not a Fanatic, Also Not Blind Tom Nagorski 2011
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