Von Bock

(1880) - (1945). Graduate in the Military Academy of Potsdam, promoted captain in 1912. During the Great War he obtained the Merit Order and the ascent to lieutenant colonel's degree of the General Staff. In 1935 he was commander in chief of the Dresden's Army Group, after the Anschluss, he was in charge of the Austrian army's integration to the German. In the beginning of the war, he was a commander in chief of the First Armies Group, and during the Poland's campaign he directed one of two principal lines of the assault.

Brilliant, decisive and tenacious man, he was considered in 1940 as one of the best general Germans. In the France's campaign he had the control of the armies group of the straight wing, invading Belgium and Holland. In the USSR's campaign he drove one of three groups of German armies, with whom he obtained the Smolensko's out-standing victory. In 1942 his military star reached the zenith with the Kharkov's victory and the fulminating advance towards the Caucasus. But in this moment he fell down in misfortune for being opposed to Hitler his obstinate assault on Stalingrad. Underprivileged person of the control, he reappears when Germany already agonizes. He dies in April 1945 in the battlefield, as one more soldier.



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	General Von Vock, Fedor		(1880) - (1945). Graduate in the Military Academy of Potsdam, promoted captain in 1912. During the Great War he obtained the Merit Order and the ascent to lieutenant colonel's degree of the General Staff. In 1935 he was commander in chief of the Dresden's Army Group, after the Anschluss, he was in charge of the Austrian army's integration to the German. In the beginning of the war, he was a commander in chief of the First Armies Group, and during the Poland's campaign he directed one of two principal lines of the assault. Brilliant, decisive and tenacious man, he was considered in 1940 as one of the best general Germans. In the France's campaign he had the control of the armies group of the straight wing, invading Belgium and Holland. In the USSR's campaign he drove one of three groups of German armies, with whom he obtained the Smolensko's out-standing victory. In 1942 his military star reached the zenith with the Kharkov's victory and the fulminating advance towards the Caucasus. But in this moment he fell down in misfortune for being opposed to Hitler his obstinate assault on Stalingrad. Underprivileged person of the control, he reappears when Germany already agonizes. He dies in April 1945 in the battlefield, as one more soldier.
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