#generalfeldmarschall

[masha-nikita]

It's been some time since I drew Walter Model.

[peipurr]

you have been judged by the generalfeldmarschalle :)

[vikkicomics]

I had so much fun writing the Feldmaschall mothering his Oberst that I will be writing a prequal that’s at least 50% von Ravenmak and Vincent Odinkirk stuck together. :3 This is from Ottoway Vol 2, von Ravenmark was invented to explain how Otto’s older brother is considered and Officer and a gentleman, while Otto is a lower-middle class Private. He also shows that Vincent has a very different relationship to authority than Edwin. Ottoway is Otto-centric so von Ravenmark and Vincent’s relationship could only be explored to the degree that it effects Vincent’s attitude towards Otto within that work.

Ottoway vol 2 is now about 50% drawn up, my goal is to have it ready for release by next remembrance day. 

[universallyarbiterinternet]

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (* 2. Oktober 1847 in Posen; † 2. August 1934 auf Gut Neudeck, Ostpreußen) war ein deutscher Generalfeldmarschall und Politiker. (wikipedia)

[peipurr]

<3

The GFM… but as a baby

[deutschland-im-krieg]

L-R: Unknown, Hitler's favourite bodyguard Sturmbahnführer Bruno Gesche, Hitler's personal secretary and after July 1944 the second most powerful man in Germany, Martin Bormann, Hitler's adjutant Oberführer Julius Schaub, Adolf Hitler, Hitler's travelling/field doctor and war criminal Karl Brandt, and Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch at the funeral service of 115 victory ace and Ritterkreuz mit Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Brillanten (Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds) holder Oberst Werner Mölders at the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM/German Air Ministry), Berlin, 28 Nov 1941

[carbone14]

Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model – 1944-1945

[littledesertfox]

Generalfeldmarschall Rommel in a car

[pinturas-gran-guerra]

1917 Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg - Ernst Zimmer

[goldammerchen]

@makwandis, found it: "Prussia was always an unfree state" (Erbe und Erinnerung – Preußen 2001/2002)

Original Language (+ more quotes):

Nicht nur der Toleranzmythos wurde relativiert, auch warfen manche Autoren die Frage nach der geistigen Verwandtschaft zwischen totalitären Systemen des 20. Jahrhunderts und Preußen neu auf. Bemerkenswert war in diesem Zusammenhang ein Essay des Ostberliner Schriftstellers Rolf Schneider in der konservativen Berliner Tageszeitung »Berliner Morgenpost«.[13] Darin schrieb Schneider:

»Der Nationalsozialismus folgte nicht zwingend aus dem Preußentum, doch vieles von dem, was er kultivierte und worauf er fußte, die Aggressivität, der Zentralismus, der Gehorsam, war in Preußen tief verankert. Sofern staatsbürgerliche Freiheit nicht denkbar ist ohne Demokratie, war Preußen stets ein unfreier Staat. Erich Honeckers deutsche Leninisten waren also gut beraten, als sie, spät genug, Preußen für sich entdeckten, um sich seine Überlieferungen nutzbar zu machen.«

Also good quotes from Staat von Blut und Eisen:

Preußen war schon immer für Mythen und Legenden unterschiedlichster Art gut. Auf den Hohenzollernstaat und seine Traditionen beriefen sich in den letzten 300 Jahren Reformer und Reaktionäre, Monarchisten und Demokraten, Junker und Industrielle, Liberale und Konservative, Nationalsozialisten und Widerstandskämpfer.

Es war die preußische Mischung aus Ost und West, aus Aufklärung und Absolutismus, aus Fortschritt und Rückständigkeit, aus Zivilisation und Barbarei, die so gegensätzliche Lager zu Bewunderern Preußens machte. Die gleiche explosive Mixtur ließ Preußen allerdings auch zum meistgehassten deutschen Staat werden.

Der preußische Adler trug Zeit seines Lebens einen Januskopf.

Preußen wurde ein Freistaat in der Weimarer Republik, und was jetzt, ohne die Hohenzollern, kam, waren die besten Jahre in der preußischen Geschichte; zum Bestandteil des Preußenmythos zählten sie leider nie. (…)

Das andere, reaktionäre Preußen gab es allerdings auch noch, und als die Weimarer Republik in die Krise geriet, zeigte es seine hässliche Fratze. 1932 ließ sich Reichskanzler Franz von Papen, ein ehemaliger preußischer Kavallerie-Offizier, von Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg, einem ehemaligen preußischen Generalfeldmarschall, ermächtigen, per Staatsstreich in Preußen die Macht zu übernehmen.

Papen träumte von einem autoritären Einheitsstaat, doch mit seinem »Preußenschlag« machte er nur den Weg frei für Hitlers Griff nach der Macht.

[omg-lucio]

Retrato de 1940 de Hugo Sperrle, Generalfeldmarschall de la Luftwaffe. Sobrevivió a la Segunda Guerra Mundial y fue juzgado en Nuremberg, pero absuelto

[masha-nikita]

Watercolor Manstein. I am really, really, really doing my best to use up that bad pile of watercolor. Jesus.

[peipurr]

sometimes I love to think of how the Generalfeldmarschalls are just .... human. beneath their military personality and after all the atrocities they may have done. and no, this isn't me justifying the n4zi's horrendous crimes, but sometimes I just think that people who wrote books abt them need to see that side of them too, like okay their military was great but c'mon, let's not forget about their interesting personality!

and some of the facts I often think are:

that my precious baby Model was a member of literary society during his youth excelled in Greek, Latin, and History (and some also say in Poetry — I wonder if he ever wrote a poem).

Von Leeb loved to collect stamps!!! and very fond of his family's chronicles.

There is a story in the Keitel Family that Wilhelm almost went to tears when he gave up his hope to become a farmer in order to stay in the military to support his family.

Von Reichenau was fond of German literature and classical music. He brought to the battlefield in the Polish campaign a small volume of a selection of German poetry.

Von Rundstedt loved detective thriller books but was shy to show it. He regularly read the novel in an open drawer which could be quickly closed whenever anyone came in to see him.

Rommel and Schörner's rivalry. David Irving wrote: "One of Schoerner’s frequent pranks was to plant silver cutlery from the mess in the pockets of guests at formal banquets and watch their embarrassment when the spoons and forks fell out. Rommel, when it happened to him, was not amused. Their rivalry persisted to the end. It was generally friendly, and once, after Schoerner had made a name for ruthlessness bordering on brutality in the Crimea ... Rommel solicitously took him aside and candidly urged him to try a different method."

Von Bock seemed to be very fond of boys —not in the negative way. In Sudetenland, he once "took his twelve-year-old son, dressed in a sailor suit, along in his car "to impress on his son the beauty and exhilaration that lie in soldiering."". In 1940, he sent a postcard to the same son, Dinnies von der Osten. Also, one of Fedi's last wishes to von Manstein was that he should take care of the 16 year old Dinnies after his death, which Erli did until his capitulation. Not that it matters, but Dinnies was not his biological son. It was his second wife's son from her previous marriage. I think it shows how much Fedi cared for the boy. Then, his diary entry on 8/9/39: " ... I was able to present the first Iron Cross of this war to a Private First Class of the 94th Regiment who acted bravely at Graudenz. The young man beamed; too beautiful these lads!". He's just ... adores his troops (and youngest stepson) so much :')

Wolfram von Richthofen always found studying language to be painful. His foreign language grades were either a borderline pass or an “unsatisfactory.” And "he was a somewhat indulgent father. When he returned home during the war years, Jutta would relate some minor misbehavior of the boys and ask that Wolfram, as their father, discipline them. Wolfram’s reply was usually something on the lines of “boys will be boys” and “they’re good kids—let’s give them a break.”". Then, Wolfram once described the Luftwaffe as “the army’s whore”.

Von Manstein's writing is something else. Even if he did lie about the breakout order in Stalingrad, I still enjoyed his memoirs, to be honest. His words are beautiful, the way he tells a story and the allusions — I got the impression that he was a highly educated person by reading Lost Victories.

Also, von Küchler and Busch's rivalry (which was bitter, unlike the Rommel-Schörner's one), which unfortunately I couldn't remember which book explained that and couldn't find it yet :(

Sources:

Hitler's Generals - Edited by Correlli Barnett

Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb: Tagebuchaufzeichnungen und Lagebeurteilungen aus zwei Weltkriegen

The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945 - Edited by Walter Görlitz

Same as 1

Lost Victories by Erich von Manstein

The Trail of The Fox by David Irving

Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock: The War Diary, 1939-1945 || Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General by Melvin Mungo || World War: The Three Vons (Time Magazine, August 18th, 1941

Wolfram von Richthofen Master of The German Air War by James Corum || Stopped at Stalingrad: the Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in The East, 1942-1943 by Prof. Joel Hayward

[vikkicomics]

Ww1 German officers, Feldmarschall Austerlitz Von Ravenmarck and Oberst Vincent Odinkirk. 

Years before the war, Vincent was Austerlitz’s aide, before he rose in rank. Vincent’s sword, boots, raven, and prosthetic arm, are all gifts from Austerlitz.  This was sat in my folders for quite a bit, I was going to add more shading but I’ve decided I’m happy with it.

[unfug-bilder]

Die blau (!) markierten Teile habe ich, der Bequemlichkeit halber, aus Wikipedia kopiert.

Am 31. Januar 1943 (Südkessel unter Gen. Paulus), bzw. 2. Februar 1943 (Nordkessel unter General Karl Strecker) stellten die Reste der Sechsten Armee unter Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich Paulus die Kampfhandlungen ein. Um die 108.000 deutsche und verbündete Soldaten gingen in Gefangenschaft.

Als Sportpalastrede wird die Rede bezeichnet, die der nationalsozialistische deutsche Reichspropagandaminister Joseph Goebbels am 18. Februar 1943 im Berliner Sportpalast hielt und in der er zur Intensivierung des „totalen Krieges“ aufrief.

Heute ist erst der 20. Januar.

Erstmal müssen wir also abwarten, wie am 31. Januar* die Dinge stehen und ob das, was gerade die Euphorie auslöst, mehr als ein Strohfeuer ist und bis dahin hält.

(*) Auch Tag der Machtergreifung - also ein beinahe heiliges Datum am rechten Rand

[deutschland-im-krieg]

28 victory ace and Pour le Mérite (Blue Max) holder Oberleutnant Robert Ritter von Greim in front of his Fokker Dr.I triplane, 1918. He was the last person to be promoted to Generalfeldmarschall in WW2, when Hitler appointed him the new head of the Luftwaffe on 24 April 1945, in the Führerbunker. Injured by flak on the flight into Berlin, he was flown out by the great Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch in the last plane to leave Berlin on 28 April 1945. He committed suicide in prison on 24 May 1945. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich