Historian About General Erich Von Manstein: The History of the Western Campaign 1940 Must Be Rewritten

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To this day, Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein is regarded as a symbol of the brilliant but unpolitical strategist – an image closely linked to the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht". Historian Roman Töppel explains in conversation with ntv.de why the myth of Manstein needs to be re-evaluated.