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Franz Halder (30 June 1884 – 2 April 1972) was a German general and the chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942. During World War II , he directed the planning and implementation of Operation Barbarossa , the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union .
After Germany's defeat, the verdict of the International Military Tribunal (1945–1946), which released many of the accused, was misrepresented as exonerating the Wehrmacht. Franz Halder and other Wehrmacht leaders signed the Generals' memorandum entitled "The German Army from 1920 to 1945", which laid out the key elements of the myth ...
The Manstein plan was a counterpart to the French Dyle plan for the Battle of France. Lieutenant General Erich von Manstein dissented from the 1939 versions of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), a plan for an invasion of France and the Low Countries, devised by Franz Halder.
15th Army (Wehrmacht) 19 July 1940: Franz Halder: 1884: 1972: Chief of the German General Staff: 19 July 1940: Hermann Hoth: 1885: 1971: 17th Army (Wehrmacht) - 4th Panzer Army - Panzer Group Hoth: 19 July 1940: Erich Hoepner: 1886: 1944: 4th Panzer Army: 19 July 1940: Eugen Ritter von Schobert: 1883: 1941: 11th Army (Wehrmacht) 19 July 1940 ...
At his trial in 1948, General Franz Halder perjured himself when he denied that he had taken bribes, and then had to maintain a stern silence when U.S. prosecutor James M. McHaney produced bank records showing otherwise. [45]
General Franz Halder welcomed it, writing that "Troops must participate in the ideological battle in the Eastern campaign to the end". [18] On 17 July 1941, the OKW declared that the Wehrmacht was to: [F]ree itself from all elements among the prisoners of war considered Bolshevik driving forces.
The German General Staff, originally the Prussian General Staff and officially the Great General Staff (‹See Tfd› German: Großer Generalstab), was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later, the German Army, responsible for the continuous study of all aspects of war, and for drawing up and reviewing plans for mobilization or campaign.
He was able to make extensive notes of Hitler’s conversations or closed speeches to generals using shorthand. The diaries were published as The Halder Diaries: The Private War Journals of Colonel General Franz Halder in two volumes in 1976 by Westview Press of Boulder, Colorado, with an introduction by Trevor N. Dupuy (ISBN 9780891581062).