Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (born Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski; 24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was subsequently convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment.

Erich von Manstein was perhaps the most talented German field commander in World War II. The son of an artillery general, he was adopted by General Georg von Manstein after the untimely death of his parents.

Manstein was taken prisoner by the British in August 1945. He testified for the defence of the German General Staff and the Wehrmacht supreme command (the OKW), on trial at the Nuremberg trials of major Nazi war criminals and organisations in August 1946. Under pressure from the Soviet Union, the British cabinet decided in July 1948 to ...

2017年4月21日 · Erich von Manstein was Germany’s greatest commander, and the Battle of Kharkov was his greatest victory. Why, then, did it matter so little? War, the poet Virgil once wrote, is a tale of “arms and the man.”

Manstein was chief of staff of the army group that conducted the unprecedented blitzkrieg into Poland in 1939. His unorthodox plan was executed during the 1940 invasion of France, where he commanded an infantry corps.

Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (born Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski; 24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was later placed in prison for 18 years because he committed war crimes.

2025年1月5日 · Erich von Manstein was among the most accomplished German commanders of World War II. An advocate of the German doctrine of Bewegungskrieg (maneuver warfare), he devised the operational strategy for the German incursion in the Ardennes Forest, which resulted in the swift capture of France in 1940.

2024年3月9日 · Manstein, his critics charged, strove in his memoir to downplay the German army’s involvement in the atrocities against Eastern European Jewry while offering a merely technical analysis of ...

When Hitler launched his attack on Russia, it was Manstein who commanded the southern German army group, won a string of victories in the Ukraine and the Crimea.

2024年9月10日 · Fritz Erich von Manstein (1887-1973) was a German general who is considered to be one of the best practitioners of mobile tactics during World War II. Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1995-041-23A%2C_Ostfront%2C_Adolf_Hitler%2C_Erich_v._Manstein.jpg