Talk:Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist

message: I find this sentence slightly strange: " . . . von Kleist saw that Hitler would bring calamity to Germany and plotted to capture and eliminate him and the entire Nazi party ..." [emphasis mine Mnentro 00:44, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot to Eliminate entire Nazi Party? 

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 20:11, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: The following words appear in the article: Of note is the fact that Kleist was charged, among other things, with "alienating, through friendship & generosity, the peoples of the Soviet Union" as described in the book "Hitler's Generals" by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. (2003). How is it possible to "alienate" people through friendship and generosity?Lestrade (talk) 02:17, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's meaningless, needs correcting. Sounds like a translation or editing error to me. Rcbutcher (talk) 23:55, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

text: Although Mitcham is a problematic source, I think that passage is a possible explanation for why Kleist got off so lightly. This is a Field Marshal, the highest rank possible in the Wehrmacht, who commanded Army Groups that occupied Soviet heartlands. Kleist being captured by the Soviets and NOT sentenced to death or even life imprisonment, I think is quite strange. On top of that, he was captured by the Yugoslavs and was only sentenced to 15 years. That must say something about his character, his rule of occupied territories as well as his treatment of civilians, which some other sources suggest is more "mellow" compared to other Wehrmacht commanders like Reichenau. Meeepmep (talk) 13:11, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Strange passage

message: It mentions he was charged in soviet Russia & Yugoslavia for war crimes. He was charged in Yugoslavia for war crimes his charges in Soviet union were "alienated through mildness and kindness the population of the Soviet Union." Here are a few citations
This book here on page 422 
Also various other sources also support it
http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/GermanFieldMarshalsWW2/EwaldvonKleist.html
7Prefix7 (talk) 21:40, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect passage

message: Samuel Mitcham's book of 1988 (paperback 2001), "Hitler's Field Marshals", does indeed contain biographical details on Ewald von Kleist.  A book with the title "Hitler's Generals" by Corelli Barnett appeared in 2003, but I am uncertain how much discussion might be devoted to von Kleist.  
Also worth noting is "The Nuremberg Interviews Conducted by Leon Goldensohn", edited and with an introduction by Robert Gellately, Knopf, 2004.  Here are collected a broad selection of surviving transcriptions of conversations by an American psychiatrist with defendants and witnesses at the International Military Tribunal. Von Kleist appeared as a witness.
Wikksg (talk) 18:49, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  book citation erroneous 

message: Among his non-German honours Kleist is credited with the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.  However Hungary was never a republic until the (vacant) Kingdom of Hungary was ousted by the Soviet sponsored Communist regime at the end of World War II and the Order was not founded until 1946 and was abolished in 1949 - by which time Kleist was a prisoner of war in Yugoslavia and ultimately the Soviet Union. I question this, is this not a confusion with a Royal Hungarian award?Cloptonson (talk) 19:43, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it doesn't make much sense. Most be, like you said, confused with Royal Hungarian Award. I might begin an expansion of this article sooner or later. Well spotted. Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 01:56, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Erroneous decoration mentioned

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message: Kleist was the one who first requested a pause from Rundstedt to rest & resupply, which was approved by Hitler and allowed the massive Dunkirk evacuation, possibly winning the war for the Allies.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.78.3.130 (talk) 14:51, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of Dunkirk in 'Invasion of France' section