Ernst Busch (HM6)

Ernst Wilhelm Bernhard Busch (* July 6th, 1885 in Essen-Steele, Westphalia) is a Veteran of the First World War and a General of the . Even before took power, he was a follower of .
In the Summer of 1938, on the Generals' meeting of August 4th in 1938 he turned, together with , against the chief of the General staff , when the latter condemned the aggressive stance of the "Führer" towards Czechoslovakia as wrong. Busch was a critic of 's concept of the Panzer troops as an independent branch of the service.
During the invasion of Poland, Busch's VIIIth Army Corps conquered and advanced as faar as . Afterwards, he got the command of the 16th Army. Leading the latter, he was at the left wing of the Heeresgruppe A during the war in the west.
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