Otto Carius: "Tiger im Schlamm", K. Vowinkel 1960, S. 62 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=7aOfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22nacht+dazu%22
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Walter Model
Geburtstag: 24. Januar 1891
Todesdatum: 21. April 1945
Otto Moritz Walter Model war ein deutscher Heeresoffizier und während des Zweiten Weltkrieges Oberbefehlshaber verschiedener Armeen und Heeresgruppen sowie 1944 kurzzeitig Oberbefehlshaber West. Aufgrund der von ihm befohlenen Gräueltaten gegen die Zivilbevölkerung wurde er von der Sowjetunion in die Liste der Kriegsverbrecher aufgenommen. Er galt unter Offizieren der Wehrmacht als Anhänger Hitlers und wurde in den deutschen Stäben auch „Hitlers Feuerwehrmann“ genannt, da er ab 1943 immer wieder an verschiedene, kritisch gewordene Punkte der Front geschickt wurde, um die Lage unter Kontrolle zu bringen. Wikipedia
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Ruhrkessel 1945, Quelle: "Tiger im Schlamm" von Otto Carius, 5. Aufl. 1985, S. 62
"Battle for White Russia: the destruction of Army Group Centre, June 1944" - Page 257 - by Gerd Niepold - 1987
"Panzer Leader" - by Heinz Guderian - 1952
„The best Kamerad inside the pocket will be the Kamerad outside the pocket.“
Der beste K.I.K wird K.A.K
To Colonel Günther Reichhelm on 11 April 1945. Model requested that Reichhelm join him for dinner before his departure. In the staff guest book at the officers' mess, the field marshal carefully wrote. Quoted in "Battle for the Ruhr" - Page 345 - by Derek S. Zumbro - 2006
September 3 1944, <Appeal to the Soldiers of the Army of the West>. Quoted in "Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944" - Page 191 - by Joachim Ludewig - 2012
„He who leads troops has no right to think about himself.“
Quoted in "Hitler's Generals" - Page 323 - by Correlli Barnett - History - 2003
To Major Kratzenberg on 3 July 1942, The Battle of Smolensk. Quoted in "Generalfeldmarschall Model Biographie" - Page 93 - by Walter Göriltz - 2012
„My Soldiers are My Children.“
Meine Soldaten sind Meine Kinder
To SS-Sturmbannführer Heinrich Springer, his aide. In the early morning hours of December 23, 1944. Quoted in "Stationen eines Lebens in Krieg und Frieden" - Page 127 - by Heinrich Springer - 1996
To Major Winrich Behr in the early morning hours of April 21, 1945. Quoted in "Battle for the Ruhr" - Page 378 - by Derek S. Zumbro - 2006
To Colonel Theodor Pilling, Lieutenant Colonel Roger Michael, Major Winrich Behr in the evening of April 20, 1945. They tuned in the Wehrmacht receiver, and listened Joseph Goebbels's speech marking the Hitler's Birthday. Quoted in "Battle for the Ruhr" - Page 378 - by Derek S. Zumbro - 2006
„Mein Führer, who commands The Ninth Army, you or I?“
To Adolf Hitler on 20 January 1942, Wolfsschanze. Quoted in "Generalfeldmarschall Model Biographie" - Page 115 - by Walter Göriltz - 2012
After the Operation Market Garden, Field Marshal Model passed the appreciation from OB West on to his soldier, September 27, 1944. Quoted in "Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944" - Page 278 - by Joachim Ludewig - 2012
To his chief of staff General Carl Wagener on 17 April 145, before dissolving Army Group B. Quoted in "Battle for the Ruhr" - Page 373 - by Derek S. Zumbro - 2006
