Wehrmacht Field Marshal Erich von manstein ( full name: Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein though he was born as Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski) at the Kerch front during Operation Barbarossa. During the war he was often critical of Hitler's military capabilites and was relieved of command in 1944. During his defence at the Nuremberg Trials he was a major proponent of the hard to defend idea that the Wehrmacht had no knowledge of the atrocities of the early Holocaust (where people were murdered in-situ rather than being shipped back to extermination camps.
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