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Friedrich von Mellenthin was born on 30 August, 1904 in Breslau, German Empire, is a German general during World War II. Discover Friedrich von Mellenthin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Born 30 August, 1904
Birthday 30 August
Birthplace Breslau, German Empire
Date of death 28 June, 1997
Died Place Johannesburg, South Africa
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1904

Friedrich von Mellenthin (30 August 1904 – 28 June 1997) was a German general during World War II.

1924

In 1924, Friedrich von Mellenthin enlisted in the Reichsheer; in 1932 he married Ingeborg von Aulock.

1928

On 28 December, Mellenthin was given command of 9th Panzer Division, which was then engaged in the Battle of the Bulge.

1935

He was assigned to the Prussian Military Academy in 1935.

1937

Between 1937 and June 1941, Mellenthin held several general staff positions in the Army; in June 1941, Mellenthin was posted to North Africa, where he served as a staff officer in the Afrika Korps until September 1942.

1944

Until May 1944, Mellenthin served as chief of staff of the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps in the occupied Soviet Union, under General Hermann Balck, including the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of Kiev, and the spring 1944 retreat through the western Ukraine.

In September 1944, Mellenthin followed Balck to the 4th Panzer Army and then to Army Group G in eastern France.

1945

From March to May 1945 he was chief of staff of the 5th Panzer Army.

Mellenthin surrendered to the British Army on 3 May 1945 and spent two and a half years in an internment camp.

1956

A participant in most of the major campaigns of the war, he became known afterwards for his memoirs Panzer Battles, first published in 1956 and reprinted several times since then.

Mellenthin's works were part of the exculpatory memoirs genre that fed the post-war revisionist narrative, put forth by former Wehrmacht generals.

The book was reprinted six times in the U.S. between 1956 and 1976 and continues to be popular among readers who romanticize the German war effort.

The veracity of Mellenthin's Panzer Battles and other works has been called into question over the years.

The historian Wolfram Wette lists Mellenthin in the group of German generals who authored apologetic, uncritical studies on World War II, alongside Ferdinand Heim, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Waldemar Erfurth and others.

Critics point out that Mellenthin tends to downplay Wehrmacht's failures while extolling the fighting qualities of the German soldier.

The historians Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies have characterized Mellenthin's works as part of the "exculpatory memoirs" genre that fed the post-war revisionist narrative, alongside books by Erich von Manstein, Heinz Guderian, Hans Rudel and Hans von Luck.

Mellenthin blames Wehrmacht's defeat solely on the Soviet advantages in men and materiel, describing the Red Army as a "ruthless enemy, possessed of immense and seemingly inexhaustible resources".

As the result, according to Mellenthin, the "endless waves of men and tanks" eventually "submerged" the supposedly superior Wehrmacht.

Wehrmacht's adversaries on the Eastern Front are consistently depicted in derogatory and racial terms, including in a section dedicated to the "Psychology of the Russian Soldier".

According to Mellenthin, "Russian soldier" is a "primitive being", characterised by "mental sluggishness" and lacking a "religious or moral balance".

He describes them as "primitive" "Asiatics".

1961

After his release, Mellenthin emigrated to South Africa, founded Trek Airways, worked together with Luxair and represented Lufthansa in Africa from 1961 until 1969.

1995

Panzer Battles was instrumental in forming the misconceptions that influenced the U.S. view of Eastern Front military operations up to 1995, when Soviet archival sources became available to Western and Russian historians.

Mellenthin was born in Breslau; his brother Horst von Mellenthin was also a World War II general.

Panzer Battles was instrumental in forming the misconceptions which influenced the U.S. view of Eastern Front military operations up to 1995, when Soviet archival sources became available to Western and Russian historians.

The historian Robert Citino notes the influential nature of Mellenthin's works in shaping the perceptions of the Red Army in the West as "a faceless and mindless horde" whose idea of military art was to "smash everything in its path through numbers, brute force and sheer size".

Citino includes Panzer Battles among the German officers' memoirs that are "at best unreliable and at worst deliberately misleading".

1997

He died in Johannesburg in 1997.

Mellenthin's book Panzerschlachten, translated into English as Panzer Battles, documents Wehrmacht's campaigns that he participated in.