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Something wrong?A panzer commander whose tactical skill helped shatter Soviet armies in 1941, whose units murdered prisoners and civilians as policy, and who walked free nine years after conviction to write books arguing the Wehrmacht's hands were clean.
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Hoth (right) with Heinz Guderian, commander of Panzer Group 2, 21 June 1941
Execution of Soviet partisans by German forces
Destroyed Red Army KV-1 tank during the Battle of Voronezh.
Hoth (right) with Erich von Manstein during Case Blue, June 1942
Troops of 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, then part of Hoth's army, during the Third Battle of Kharkov
Hoth (first from left) and other German officers discuss the plans for Operation Citadel.Awards
About this person
Born in Prussia in 1885, Hoth spent World War I in staff positions and rose slowly through the ranks until Hitler's arrival accelerated everything. He became a motorization advocate and led armoured forces through Poland and France, then commanded the 3rd Panzer Group into the Soviet Union in 1941, where he helped destroy multiple Red Army formations. By October 1941, heading the 17th Army, he openly pushed for annihilation warfare, the killing of partisans without mercy, and the murder of Jews. He led the 4th Panzer Army at Stalingrad, failed to break the encirclement in November 1942, fought at Kharkov and Kursk while nearing collapse, then lost Kiev and his command in November 1943. Convicted in 1948 for war crimes - enforcing the Commissar Order, enabling the murder of POWs and civilians - he served six years of a fifteen-year sentence, then spent his remaining decades publishing defenses of the army he had led.
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