Walter Model
German field marshal (1891-1945)
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German WWII general who pivoted from aggressive tank warfare to earning a reputation as a defensive mastermind. Model's success commanding the Ninth Army in 1941–42 locked him into that defensive playbook for the rest of the war.
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Otto Moritz Walter Model was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best known as a practitioner of defensive warfare. His relative success as commander of the Ninth Army in the battles of 1941–1942 determined his future career path.
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