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World conqueror 4 conquest 1943 rank s9/19/2023 By the end of World War II he was Hitler's favorite commander. Schörner was a dedicated Nazi and became well known for his brutality. He was harsh against superiors as well as subordinates and carried out operations on his own authority against Hitler's orders when he considered it necessary, such as the evacuation of the Sõrve Peninsula. More recent research by American historian Howard Davis Grier and German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser depicts Schörner as a talented commander with "astonishing" organizational ability in managing an army group of 500,000 men during the fighting in late 1944 on the Eastern Front. Schörner is commonly represented in historical literature as a simple disciplinarian and a slavish devotee of Hitler's defensive orders, after Germany lost the initiative in the second half of World War II in 1942/43. He commanded several army groups and was the last Commander-in-chief of the German Army. ★ Ferdinand Schörner (12 June 1892 – 2 July 1973) was a German general and later Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.
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