“Ewald von Kleist was an officer and a gentleman in an era when such characteristics were liabilities.”

— Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist

Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., in Hitler's Generals (2003)

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German general during World War II 1881–1954

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