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Find a Grave Memorial ID: 8450778. Source citation. World War II Nazi Germany Army Field Marshal. He was the commander of the German 6th Army during the siege of Stalingrad, Soviet Union, and will always be linked for suffering the greatest military defeat in history which signaled the start of the end for the Third Reich.
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Death and burial ground of Paulus, Friedrich “der Lord”. He died in Dresden on 01-02-1957, age 76 of cancer, exactly 14 years after he surrendered at Stalingrad. First he was buried with military honor on the cemetery of Dresden-Tolkewitz His ashes later were brought for burial in a family grave in Baden-Baden on the Hauptfriedhof next to ...
May 9, 2017 · Friedrich Paulus was born in Breitenau, Germany, on September 23, 1890. The son of a treasurer, Paulus attempted to become an officer-cadet in the German Navy but was rejected because of his lack of aristocratic blood. After briefly studying law at the University of Marburg he joined the German Army in 1910.
Apr 1, 2024 · Friedrich Paulus was a German field marshal whose advance on Stalingrad (now Volgograd, Russia) in the summer and fall of 1942 represented the high-water mark of Nazi military expansion. Cut off by a Soviet counteroffensive and denied the option of retreat by German leader Adolf Hitler, Paulus was.
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May 21, 2023 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Paulus. Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was an officer in the German military from 1910 to 1943, attaining the rank of Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II. He is best known for commanding the Sixth Army's assault on Stalingrad during Operation ...
- September 23, 1890
- February 01, 1957 (66)Dresden, Germany (ALS)
- Breitenau, Essen, Germany
- Baden Baden
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Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus was regarded as Hitler's beacon of hope, but led his 6th Army into the most devastating defeat of the entire Second World War: the Battle of Stalingrad. Under his supreme command, the city on the Volga becomes a mass grave, and the failure becomes the great turning point of the war.