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Parent articles
- Prussia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Germany [r]: A country in north-western continental Europe that is a major political and economic world player. [e]
- Second Reich [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Weimar Republic [r]: Post-First World War democracy government in Germany, created in 1918 and ending in 1933 when the new Weimar Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, took control through parliamentary maneuver and became dictator [e]
- Third Reich [r]: The German state under National Socialism, 1933-1945 [e]
- German Federal Republic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- German Democratic Republic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Staff (military) [r]: A military organization to extend the capabilities of a commander, by providing services from personal assistance to presenting alternative plans and managing the details of warfare [e]
Subtopics
Theory and organization
- German General Staff [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carl von Clausewitz [r]: (1780-1831) German military theorist who stressed the moral and political aspects of war, posthumous author of On War. [e]
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder [r]: (1800-1891) Prussian field marshal who guided Austro-Prussian (1866) and Franco-Prussian Wars (1870); developed the existing Prussian staff tradition into a modern system for national mobilization of forces and industry; chief of general staff (1857–88); uncle of Helmuth von Moltke the Younger [e]
- Helmuth von Moltke the Younger [r]: (1848-1916) German Field Marshal, nephew of Helmuth von Molkte the Elder who became Chief of the General Staff in 1904; performed well in Franco-Prussian War but mismanaged the Schlieffen Plan at the start of WWI and was relieved a month later. [e]
Command and control
- Reichswehr [r]: German defense organization under the Weimar Republic; limited by the Treaty of Versailles but with a clandestine general staff and rearmament function in the Truppenamt [e]
- Wehrmacht [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oberkommando der Wehrmacht [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wilhelm Keitel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred Jodl [r]: Colonel-general in the Army of Nazi Germany; head of operations branch of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the overall command staff; executed for war crimes by sentence of the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Walter Warlimont [r]: (1894-1976) General officer in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht operations staff, assisting Alfred Jodl; sentenced to life in the High Command Case (NMT), released 1957 [e]
- Oberkommando der Wehrmacht [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bundeswehr [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ground forces
- Reichsheer [r]: Ground forces component of the Weimar Republic Reichswehr [e]
- Heer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oberkommando des Heeres [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ludwig Beck [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Franz Halder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kurt Zeitzler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adolf Heusinger [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heinz Guderian [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hans Krebs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oberkommando des Heeres [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bundesheer [r]: Add brief definition or description