“Mein Führer, who commands The Ninth Army, you or I?”

— Walter Model

To Adolf Hitler on 20 January 1942, Wolfsschanze. Quoted in "Generalfeldmarschall Model Biographie" - Page 115 - by Walter Göriltz - 2012

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German field marshal 1891–1945

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