Kleist, Paul Ludwig von

Kleist, Paul Ludwig von

▪ German general
born Aug. 8, 1881, Braunfels an der Lahn, Ger.
died , October? 1954, Vladimirovka Camp, Russian S.F.S.R.

      German general during World War II.

      Educated in a German military school, he served as a lieutenant of hussars and a regimental commander in World War I. After the Armistice, he served in various high staff appointments before being retired in 1939. He was recalled to service upon the outbreak of World War II and was put in command of an army corps.

      A master of the blitzkrieg form of warfare, Kleist participated in the German invasion of Poland (1939) and commanded the tank corps that broke through the Ardennes Forest and thus began the rout of the French army in June 1940. He led the mechanized column that took Belgrade in the Yugoslavian campaign (1941). Early in the invasion of the Soviet Union, his tank army led the German attack on Kiev and the advance through the Ukraine. In November 1941 Kleist's armies captured Rostov, only to lose it a week later when the Soviet general S.K. Timoshenko launched a counteroffensive. When the Germans renewed their offensive in the summer of 1942, Kleist's 1st German tank army drove through to the foothills of the Caucasus but then had to retreat, narrowly escaping encirclement. Kleist was promoted to the rank of field marshal in 1943 but was dismissed from his command by Hitler in 1944. In 1945 he was captured by U.S. troops. In 1948 he was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by a Yugoslavian court and was turned over to authorities in the Soviet Union, where he died in prison.

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