Friedrich von Mellenthin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German general
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Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
About Friedrich von Mellenthin
- Friedrich von Mellenthin (30 August 1904 – 28 June 1997) was a German general during World War II.
- A participant in most of the major campaigns of the war, he became known afterwards for his memoirs Panzer Battles, first published in 1956 and reprinted several times since then. Mellenthin's works were part of the exculpatory memoirs genre that fed the post-war revisionist narrative, put forth by former Wehrmacht generals.
- Panzer Battles was instrumental in forming the misconceptions that influenced the U.S.
- view of Eastern Front military operations up to 1995, when Soviet archival sources became available to Western and Russian historians.
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