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André Corap, né le 15 janvier 1878 à Pont-Audemer et mort le 15 août 1953 à Fontainebleau, est un général français. Décoré de la croix de guerre pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et la guerre du Rif, il commande la 9e armée française détruite sur la Meuse par la Wehrmacht en mai 1940.
André Georges Corap (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃dʁe ʒɔʁʒ kɔʁap]; 15 January 1878 – 15 August 1953) was a General in the French Army who fought in World War II. He commanded the 9th Army during the battle of France in 1940.
The Ninth’s commanding officer, General André Corap, was sacked on the 15th. Some soldiers of the Ninth did what they could, but coordination was beyond them. The panzers of General Heinz Guderian’s XIX Armored Corps clattered on, ferociously intent on driving all the way to the sea.
27. Juni 2018 · Dans cet élan de causalité, nous retrouvons en bouc émissaire le général de la IX e armée, André Corap (1878-1953). Max Schiavon, historien de la défense et spécialiste de la période 1938-1940, ressort cette affaire occultée de la mémoire collective en publiant en 2017 une biographie du personnage.
- Erwin Rommel’s Swift Rise Through The Ranks
- The 7th Panzer Division Was A “Propaganda Division”
- Army Groups A, B, and C
- The Offensive Begins
- First Contact
- Crossing The Meuse
- “Onhaye Crisis”
- French Tanks Meet Rommel’s Panzers
- “The Most Spectacular German Exploit of The Day”
- Knight’s Cross of The Iron Cross
What Rommel did have was regular, personal access to Adolf Hitler. Rommel and Hitler first met briefly in Goslar at a Reichsbaurentag, a traditional fair for farmers and landowners that the Nazis had elevated to a political event. It was at this meeting in Goslar that Rommel also met the Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels. He made a favorable ...
From the start it was clear the 7th Panzer Division would be receiving high-level political attention and preference. Goebbels gave Rommel, an avid amateur photographer, a Leica camera to chronicle the campaign. Rommel intended to use the photos in the book he planned to write to follow up his popular Infantry Attacks. Manfred Rommel, his son, wrot...
Rommel’s division, along with the 5th Panzer Division, would be the nucleus of XV Panzer Corps, which was part of the Fourth Army commanded by Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge. In addition to the XV Panzer Corps, Fourth Army had three infantry corps, the II, V, and VIII. The 5th and 7th were the only panzer divisions in the entire Army. Fourth Army ...
The code word for the launch of Fall Gelb, “Danzig,” was received late in the day on May 9. Rommel wrote a last quick letter to his wife as he was packing; there would be no communication between them in the coming days. The 7th Panzer rolled forward at 4:35 the next morning, crossing the border between Germany and Belgium east of St. Vith. The 5th...
Navigating the limited road network, 7th Panzer encountered its first serious Belgian opposition during the early hours of May 11, brushing aside elements of the 3rd Regiment of the Chasseurs Ardennais at Chabrehez. The role of the Chasseurs Ardennais was to fight a delaying action until the French could cover the flank toward their own border. Tha...
The need for Rommel to capture a bridge intact was critical. The Meuse was deep and wide, with steep and escarped banks. The French, however, were successful in blowing up the crucial bridges in front of the advancing XV Corps, including a railroad bridge at Houx, the road bridge at Dinant, and the road bridge at Bouvigne. In addition, the defenses...
By the morning of the 14th the advance guard of the 7th Motorized Infantry Regiment had reached Onhaye, two miles west of Dinant. Communicating by radio that he had “arrived” (eingetroffen), Colonel Georg von Bismarck was misunderstood as having announced he was “encircled” (eingeschlossen). Radio communication then failed, setting off a crisis tha...
For the French Army, however, the crisis was only beginning. During the 13th and 14th all three German panzer corps had formed bridgeheads on the western side of the Meuse, though Reinhardt’s at Monthermé was precarious and encountering stiff resistance while Guderian’s at Sedan was only marginally better, having become the target of intense air bo...
Reaching the French frontier just west of Sivry, Rommel now was faced with attacking the Maginot Line extension. The Germans did not make a distinction between the “true” Maginot Line, which ended at Longuyon, and its northern extension, which was made up only of a shallow belt of pillboxes and antitank obstacles, something that explains Rommel’s c...
The rest of the division was now far behind, dangerously so in the minds of some, including individuals on the divisional staff such as Heid- kaemper. He later wrote a memorandum, submitted to both Rommel and Hoth, complaining that a divisional commander ought to remain to the rear, at or close to his headquarters. Rommel was still learning the fin...
French Ninth Army commander, Général d'armée André Corap https://www.generals.dk If the Germans attacked, its role was to advance to the Dale line, with the Seventh Army covering west of Antwerp, ready to move into Holland.
The best known instance was the destruction of the 55th and 71st infantry divisions on the west bank of the Meuse in mid-May. 10 The Germans went on to pulverize other divisions in General André Corap’s Ninth Army and in General Georges Blanchard’s First Army, including 5th Motorized Infantry and 4th Light Cavalry, in an area bounded by ...
