No general in the last 500 years is more skilled in military

Napoleon exists. There's a reason we don't call WW2 "the Mansteinic Era".

>>2643066
cool, what did he do again beside france?

>>2643066

If he was so good, he wouldn't have lost to undermanned and beaten british soldiers and green americans.

>>2643079
Third Kharkov.

>>2643082
Didn't Mannstein only serve on the eastern front front?

>>2643083
that was him? I thought It was Guderian

>>2643086

Shit I'm thinking of Rommel. my bad.

German officers tend to all look the same to me after awhile; I think its the inbreeding.

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>>2643090

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Nice advance into Kharkov.. shame if something were to happen to it...

>>2643088
No, it was him. Guderian didn't even ahve a field command at the time.

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>"Hitler must have paid him compliments about his strategic skills during the attack operations, but he also said, "I cannot use you in the South. Field Marshal Model will take over." And Manstein replied, "My Führer ... please believe me when I say I will use all strategic means at my disposal to defend the soil in which my son lies buried..."

>>2643129
he was inspector of the Panzertruppe right?

>>2643133
o/

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>>2643090

>German officers tend to all look the same to me after awhile; I think its the inbreeding.

>>2643090
wow, racist much?

Who are the other candidates? I'm new here

>>2643234

>racist
>against germans

Comon man, that would imply they're actually human beings.

>>2643066
Sorry, if you lose the war you command in, you're out of the running for GOAT.

>>2643265
edgy

>>2643356

He was fired and never held a command after 1943 too many fights with Hitler, and was just as politically savvy as the Fuhrer, making him a real threat. Wanted 1943 spent doing what he did at Kharkov on a larger scale, but Hitler ordered Kursk.

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>>2643090
>German officers tend to all look the same to me after awhile; I think its the inbreeding.

>>2643383
No, he was fired in March 1944 after failing to hold the German front around the Dniepr.

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ITT: Tsundere Anglos wishing Senpai noticed them.

>>2643066
SLIM
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First-rate general on a third-rate front.

>>2643265

Go back to Princeton Czar Wilson!

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>>2643418
tfw no epic Lettow and Slim team up, fucking up the Japs.

>>2643265
Autism

>>2643133
Model is based though

one of the most underrated commander in the war

>>2643066

WW2 memes aside, if you thing Meinstein is the best general of THE LAST 500 YEARS you must be a retard who doesn't know history. Whatever tactics he used were made by the brilliant people that invented them, even going back to the ancient era.

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>>2644092

not criticizing the replacement in any way, just got some feels from a grieving father.