The Manstein Plan or Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb; also known after the war as Unternehmen Sichelschnitt a transliteration of the English Operation Sickle cut), was the war plan of the German armed forces (Wehrmacht) for the Battle of France in 1940. The original invasion plan was an awkward compromise devised by General Franz Halder, the chief of staff of Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH, Army High Command) that satisfied no one. Documents with details of the plan fell into Belgian hands during the Mechelen incident on 10 January 1940 and the plan was revised several times, each giving more emphasis to an attack by Army Group A through the Ardennes, which progressively reduced the offensive by Army Group B through the Low Countries to a diversion.
In the final version of the plan, the main effort of the German invasion was made against the Ardennes, the weakest part of the Allied line, where the defence was left to second-rate French divisions in the Second Army and the Ninth Army, on the assumption that the difficulty of moving masses of men and equipment would give the French plenty of time to send reinforcements if the area was attacked. The Seventh Army, which had been the most powerful part of the French strategic reserve, had been committed to a rush through Belgium to join with the Dutch Army to the north, in the Breda variant of Plan D, the Allied deployment plan.
The MansteinPlan or Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb; also known after the war as Unternehmen Sichelschnitt a transliteration of the English Operation...
Rundstedt's Army Group South. Adolf Hitler chose Manstein's strategy for the invasion of France of May 1940, a plan later refined by Franz Halder and other members...
coast. May wrote that although the alternative plan was called the MansteinPlan, Guderian, Manstein, Rundstedt, Halder and Hitler had been equally important...
victory within weeks—if that did not happen there was no 'Plan B'". MansteinPlan (Second World War plan with similarities) On taking up the post, Schlieffen...
the Maginot Line. Erich von Manstein, then Chief of Staff of the German Army Group A, prepared the outline of a different plan and submitted it to the Oberkommando...
in the spring of 1940. Tresckow played a role in the adoption of the MansteinPlan, which proved to be successful in the French campaign. Tresckow's former...
credibility to the MansteinPlan, as it made the encirclement of Allied forces in the Low Countries appear plausible.: 102 The MansteinPlan found its way...
Channel coast. May wrote that the alternative plan has been called the MansteinPlan but that Guderian, Manstein, Rundstedt, Halder and Hitler had been equally...
Most senior officers were opposed to both the timing and the plan. Rundstedt, Manstein, Reichenau (commanding 6th Army in Army Group B), List and Brauchitsch...
Belgium into northern France, and then advance on Paris. According to the MansteinPlan, the German attack in Belgium was a feint designed to draw the Allied...
with the strategic plans and operational decisions of the professionals that had cost Germany its victory against Stalin". Manstein portrayed the average...
the Low Countries. The plan was being developed by his classmate at the 1907 War Academy, Erich von Manstein. The MansteinPlan shifted the weight of the...
contained 19 divisions, fewer than a seventh of the force committed in the MansteinPlan for the invasion of France. Reflecting memories of World War I, the...
Britain. The MansteinPlan for a swift victory over France was not adopted until February 1940. Learning of the Army's western offensive plans in September...
forest. German forces, primarily under the command of Erich von Manstein, carried out the plan in two days, and managed to slip numerous divisions past the...
Erich von Manstein (24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a prominent commander of Nazi Germany's World War II army (Heer). In 1949, he was tried for war...
largely equipped with Czech weapons. During the winter, the alternative MansteinPlan (Case Yellow) was adopted, which shifted the main attack to Army Group...
mobilization plan was to at least treble their force, but lacked intelligence on the armament plan, the militia plan, or the MansteinPlan. He prepared...
commencement of the MansteinPlan and its invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940, the BEF's Gladiators participated in the Dyle Plan, an unsuccessful...
1943". Manstein, however, who knew that Sixth Army could not survive the winter there, instructed his headquarters to draw up a further plan in the event...
rapidly advanced into French territory as part of the MansteinPlan, before initiating the Fall Rot plan on 5 June. The French Armed Forces, which had deployed...
northward to the English Channel, using Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein'splan Sichelschnitt (under the German strategy Fall Gelb), effectively flanking...
of attrition and embarked on a high-risk strategy. They approved the MansteinPlan, envisaging an advance through the Ardennes by the main mass of German...
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