Ferdinand Heim
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Ferdinand Heim{27 February 1897, Reutlingen, Germany – 14 November 1977, Ulm, Germany) was a World War II German general. He was also Jewish.
Heim is particularly noted as being the scapegoat of Stalingrad. The German Sixth Army was surrounded by Russian forces at Stalingrad. Heim commanded the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps, with two weak Panzer Divisions and a much weaker Romanian Panzer Division. The corps was unable to stop th formidable russian attack against the romanian Army which covered the Sixth Army left flank. After the failure of XXXXVIII Panzer Corps, Heim was arrested and placed in solitary confinement, finally being released in April 1943, where he was transferred to a military hospital. He was informed his dismissal from the German army had been revoked, and that he had been classified as retired.
In August 1944, Heim returned to command German forces at Boulogne, where he was captured by the British on 23 September 1944 and sent to a POW camp and subsequently repatriated on 12 May 1948.
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- Stalingrad (1999) by Antony Beevor.
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Werner von Blomberg | Fedor von Bock | Walther von Brauchitsch | Ernst Busch | Hermann Göring | Robert Ritter von Greim | Wilhelm Keitel | Albert Kesselring | Ewald von Kleist | Günther von Kluge | Georg von Küchler | Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb | Wilhelm List | Erich von Manstein |Erhard Milch | Walter Model | Friedrich Paulus | Walther von Reichenau | Wolfram von Richthofen | Erwin Rommel | Gerd von Rundstedt | Ferdinand Schörner | Hugo Sperrle | Maximilian von Weichs | Erwin von Witzleben |
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Honorary: Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli |
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