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When was Kleist dismissed due to disagreements over strategic decisions with Hitler?

  • March 1944

  • July 1944

  • October 1943

  • January 1945

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Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist was dismissed by Hitler in March 1944 after the German defeat at the Battle of Kursk. Kleist had disagreed with Hitler over the strategy for the battle, and believed that the Germans should have concentrated their forces on a single thrust, rather than spreading them out over a wide front. Kleist's dismissal was a sign of Hitler's increasing paranoia and distrust of his military commanders.
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