Marcks

In 1940, as chief of staff of the German 18th Army Group, Marcks had altered the initial plans so as to prevent Paris from being bombarded in the event the Germans had to seize the city by force.

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Marcks and his staff also envisioned the campaign as taking the same amount of time, between nine and seventeen weeks.4

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Leaving aside the fact that Marcks was wrong in every particular, this plan was simply a recapitulation of Napoleonic strategy, the same tired thinking that had characterized the original Gelb.

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In 1940, the two cities were still the heart of the country, so General Erich Marcks, whom Franz Halder, the German chief of staff, had charged with developing the plan for Russian operations, opted for the same route.

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But Paulus, no more than his colleague Marcks, was still fixated on Moscow as the main objective.

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Marcks and his staff also envisioned the campaign as taking the same amount of time, between nine and seventeen weeks.4

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Every Roadrunner has his Wile E. Coyote, and for golf-course superintendent Marcks, geese were the mortal enemy.

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Every Roadrunner has his Wile E. Coyote, and for golf-course superintendent Marcks, geese were the mortal enemy.

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Every Roadrunner has his Wile E. Coyote, and for golf-course superintendent Marcks, geese were the mortal enemy.

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Moscow, in other words, was like London, or the Paris Marcks so admired.

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