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| rdfs:label | - Albert Kesselring
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| rdfs:comment | - Albert Kesselring (8. elokuuta 1881 – 16. heinäkuuta 1960) oli Saksan ilmavoimien Luftwaffen sotamarsalkka toisen maailmansodan aikana.
- Albert Kesselring (1885-1960) was the Luftwaffe’s one time Chief of Staff. He is also well known for taking command of German forces in Italy and he was nicknamed "Smiling Albert" by Allied troops.
- Albert Kesselring was born in Marktsteft, Bavaria, on 30 November 1885. He joined the Bavarian Army as an officer cadet in 1904, and served in the artillery branch. During WWI, he served on both the Western and Eastern fronts. After the war, Kesselring was tried for war crimes and sentenced to death. The sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment. A political and media campaign resulted in his release in 1952, ostensibly on health grounds. He was one of only three Generalfeldmarschalls to publish his memoirs, entitled Soldat bis zum letzten Tag (A Soldier to the Last Day).
- Albert Kesselring (Marktsteft / Unterfranken, 13 november 1885 - Bad Nauheim, 16 juli 1960) was een Duitse generaal en veldmaarschalk uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Tijdens de oorlog was hij opperbevelhebber van de Duitse bombardementsdivisies van de Luftwaffe. Hij wordt verantwoordelijk gehouden voor de talloze terreurbombardementen die tijdens de oorlog, op zijn bevel, werden uitgevoerd door Duitse bommenwerpers. Kesselring behaalde erg veel succes met zijn tactische en goed doordachte luchtaanvallen. Hij werd onderscheiden met diamanten bij het ridderkruis, de hoogste Duitse onderscheiding.
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- Smiling Albert
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| Branch | - Luftwaffe
- Deutsches Heer
- Reichswehr
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| Nickname | - Uncle Albert
- Smiling Albert
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| Caption | - Albert Kesselring pictured wearing his Knight's Cross in 1940
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| Birth Place | - Marktsteft, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
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| Title | - Commander of Luftflotte 1
- Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff
- Commander of Luftflotte 2
- Oberbefehlshaber Süd
- Oberbefehlshaber West
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| Before | - none
- General der Flieger Hellmuth Felmy
- Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt
- Generalleutnant Walther Wever
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| Years | - --01-12
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- Generalfeldmarschall Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen
- Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen Stumpff
- General der Flieger Hans-Jürgen Stumpff
- Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff
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| Source | - Albert Kesselring
- Mark Clark
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| Quote | - Furthermore, we knew that in command of these forces was Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, one of the ablest officers in the Hitler armies. He had served with distinction in the German artillery, the air force and had been on the General Staff prior to the war. Kesselring was well-qualified, both as a commander and an administrator, and he conducted the Axis operations in Italy with great skill for two years, after which he was transferred to the Western Front in Germany. I was glad to see him go. He was quick to reorganise his forces and shift reserves to meet our attacks ...
- Results will demonstrate an officer's fitness to be a field marshal, and no one will then ask about his origins, whether he came from the army or the air force. But one piece of advice I will give to all air field marshals: do not become a one-sided technician, but learn to think and lead in terms of all three services.
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| abstract | - Albert Kesselring (8. elokuuta 1881 – 16. heinäkuuta 1960) oli Saksan ilmavoimien Luftwaffen sotamarsalkka toisen maailmansodan aikana.
- Albert Kesselring (Marktsteft / Unterfranken, 13 november 1885 - Bad Nauheim, 16 juli 1960) was een Duitse generaal en veldmaarschalk uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Tijdens de oorlog was hij opperbevelhebber van de Duitse bombardementsdivisies van de Luftwaffe. Hij wordt verantwoordelijk gehouden voor de talloze terreurbombardementen die tijdens de oorlog, op zijn bevel, werden uitgevoerd door Duitse bommenwerpers. Kesselring behaalde erg veel succes met zijn tactische en goed doordachte luchtaanvallen. Hij werd onderscheiden met diamanten bij het ridderkruis, de hoogste Duitse onderscheiding. Vanwege zijn laconieke karakter en zijn altijd aanwezige glimlach kreeg Kesselring de bijnaam: de lachende generaal.
- Albert Kesselring was born in Marktsteft, Bavaria, on 30 November 1885. He joined the Bavarian Army as an officer cadet in 1904, and served in the artillery branch. During WWI, he served on both the Western and Eastern fronts. During WWII he commanded air forces in the invasions of Poland and France, the Battle of Britain, and Operation Barbarossa. Kesselring conducted a stubborn defensive campaign against the Allied forces in Italy until he was injured in an accident in October 1944. In the final campaign of the war, he commanded German forces on the Western Front. He won the respect of his Allied opponents for his military accomplishments, but his record was marred by massacres committed by troops in Italy. After the war, Kesselring was tried for war crimes and sentenced to death. The sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment. A political and media campaign resulted in his release in 1952, ostensibly on health grounds. He was one of only three Generalfeldmarschalls to publish his memoirs, entitled Soldat bis zum letzten Tag (A Soldier to the Last Day).
- Albert Kesselring (1885-1960) was the Luftwaffe’s one time Chief of Staff. He is also well known for taking command of German forces in Italy and he was nicknamed "Smiling Albert" by Allied troops.
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