Who Are These Generals?

[Can Balcioglu]

Hey people I keep ending up finding the names of these German Generals. I checked their names in Oxford's Companion to World War 2 but not much info is there. Please help;

Krebs, Burgdorf, Weidling, Mohnke, Hoth, Bittrich, Wenck, Steiner

Please pardon my ignorance I know these people are known by all here but spare me, I don't

[Stauffenberg II]

Hi!

Burgdorf:
http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/WEHRM ... LHELM.html

Hoth:
http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/WEHRM ... RMANN.html

Krebs:
http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/WEHRM ... _HANS.html

Weidling:
http://www.feldgrau.com/search-officers2.php?ID=2206

Wenck:
http://www.feldgrau.com/search-officers2.php?ID=2215

or using the search button of this forum hence getting a lot of info and images (especially for WSS-Generals Bittrich and Steiner). Also for general use see:
http://www.unithistories.com/units_inde ... sonsx.html

Best!

[Can Balcioglu]

Thanks So Much!!!

[Potsdamerplatz]

Hello Can Balcioglu,

I have some more information on some of these Generals:

WILHELM BURGDORF was one of the 2 Generals despatched by Keitel to visit Field Marshal Rommel and inform him of the charges of treason being levelled against him. Burgdorf was with Rommel when he committed suicide later on that day whilst travelling by car to Ulm.

HANS KREBS was the last Chief of the General Staff and visited Russian Headquarters on 1st May 1945 to offer the Russians a truce. He later returned to the Chancellery and both he and BURGDORF shot themselves later on that evening.

HELMUTH WEIDLING was in command of the defence of Berlin in April 1945. He didn't "disappear" as the website states but was held in Soviet captivity until his death in 1955.

Best wishes,

DAVID