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Erich Marcks

Erich Marcks
Erich Marcks, German general in WWII who planned Operation Barbarossa (d. 1944)

Erich Marcks was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He authored the first draft of the operational plan, Operation Draft East, for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, advocating what was later known as A-A line as the goal for the Wehrmacht to achieve, within nine to seventeen weeks. Marcks studied philosophy in Freiburg in 1909.

6 June 1891

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