The Germans, at first caught by surprise, began to respond. They had anticipated an airborne attack, and Field Marshal Walter Model, commander of German forces in the area, was an expert in ...

Axis: Field Marshal Walter Model's Army Group B; SS Lieutenant General Willi Bittrich's 2nd SS Panzer Corps. Outcome: A failed attempt to prepare for an Allied advance into Germany. 'If in the ...

In fact, two divisions of 1st SS Panzer Corps were in the area, while Field Marshal Walter Model had set up Army Group B's headquarters west of Arnhem. The Germans began to send the plan off ...

Nazi spokesmen last week announced the death from apoplexy of lean, athletic Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, 57, Commander of Germany’s Sixth Army in the Ukraine, who was so stiffly Prussian ...

replaced by Field Marshall Walther Model. But he was recalled in March, 1945, and was tasked with trying to stave off the Allied advance into Germany. Busch surrendered to Field Marshal Bernard ...

Axis: Field Marshal Walter Model's Army Group B; SS Lieutenant General Willi Bittrich's 2nd SS Panzer Corps. Outcome: A failed attempt to prepare for an Allied advance into Germany. 'If in the ...