German field marshal (1887-1973)
The Prussian field marshal who designed the sickle cut through the Ardennes that broke France in 1940, then commanded German forces through the sieges of Sevastopol and Leningrad before a failed relief at Stalingrad ended his streak. Convicted of war crimes in 1949, he served four years and spent his freedom crafting the myth that the Wehrmacht's hands were
Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski was born into Prussian military aristocracy in 1887 and took the Manstein name, rising to captain in the First World War. In 1940, as chief of staff to Army Group South, he devised the Sichelschnitt — the surprise thrust through the Ardennes that cut the Allied armies in two and delivered France in six weeks. Promoted to field marshal after the siege of Sevastopol in July 1942, he led forces at Leningrad, then commanded the doomed Winter Storm relief attempt at Stalingrad in December. His backhand blow at Kharkov in early 1943 destroyed three Soviet armies…
Sourced, dated quotes from Erich von Manstein
I tried at that time to relieve the Sixth Army, of which I was supreme commander, above Paulus, by counterattacks - but it was not possible.
But it is a well-known maxim of war that whoever tries to hold on to everything at once, finishes up by holding nothing at all.
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