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Friedrich von Mellenthin
Born
(1904-08-30)August 30, 1904 Breslau, German Empire
Died
June 28, 1997(1997-06-28) (aged 92) Johannesburg, South Africa
Allegiance
Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Reichswehr Army (Wehrmacht)
Years of service
1924–45
Rank
Generalmajor
Unit
III Army Corps Second Army Afrika Korps XLVIII Panzer Corps Army Group G 5th Panzer Army
Commands held
9th Panzer Division
Battles/wars
See battles
World War II
Invasion of Poland
Battle of France
Balkans Campaign
First Battle of El Alamein
Second Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Kiev
Battle of the Bulge
Other work
Author of Panzer Battles
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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