What position did the person who named the 1st Battle of Kharkov hold during World War II?
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First Battle of Kharkov The 1st Battle of Kharkov, so named by Wilhelm Keitel, was the 1941 tactical battle for the city of Kharkov (now "Kharkiv") (Ukrainian SSR) during the final phase of Operation "Barbarossa" between the German 6th Army of Army Group South and the Soviet Southwestern Front. The Soviet 38th Army was ordered to defend the city while its factories were dismantled for relocation farther east.
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Wilhelm Keitel Wilhelm Keitel (22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal who served as Chief of the Armed Forces High Command ("Oberkommando der Wehrmacht" or OKW) in Nazi Germany during World War II. According to David Stahel, Keitel was "well known and [...] reviled as Hitler's dependable mouthpiece and habitual yes-man" among his military colleagues.
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Battle of Petrikowka The Battle of Petrikowka (present-day Petrykivka, Ukraine) took place between 27 and 30 September 1941, during World War II. Fought between Italian and Soviet forces, it was the first significant engagement involving the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia.
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Fritz Poleck Peter Fritz Theodor Wilhelm Hans Poleck (8 November 1905 in Lissa – 27 November 1989) was a German Army officer during World War II. He was notable for being a delegate at the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath as a member of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) command group.
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Vladimir Arkhipov Vladimir Mikhailovich Arkhipov (Russian: Владимир Миха́йлович Архи́пов; 1 June 1933 – 27 October 2004) was a Soviet army general and politician.
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Karl Angerstein Karl Angerstein (4 December 1890 – 20 September 1985) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 1st Air Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany
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Shakir Geniatullin Shakir Nigmatulinovich Geniatullin (Russian: Шакир Нигматулинович Гениатуллин ; 1895 - 1946) was a Soviet military officer and Red Army major-general during World War II.
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Battle of Kiev (1941) The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a very large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II. This encirclement is considered the largest encirclement in the history of warfare (by number of troops). The operation ran from 7 August to 26 September 1941 as part of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. In Soviet military history, it is referred to as the Kiev Strategic Defensive Operation, with somewhat different dating of 7 July – 26 September 1941.
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Kuzma Sinilov Kuzma Romanovich Sinilov (Russian: Кузьма Романович Синилов ; May 14, 1902 – December 27, 1957) was a Soviet Lieutenant general. He served as the military commandant of Moscow between 1941 and 1953.
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First Battle of Târgu Frumos The First Battle of Târgu Frumos was part of the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive of World War II, fought between Axis powers commanded by Otto Wöhler and Soviet forces led by Ivan Konev.
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Komandarm 2nd rank Komandarm 2nd rank is the abbreviation to Commanding officer of the Army 2nd rank (Russian: Командующий армией ; literal: Commander of the Army / Army commander), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940. It was also the designation to military personnel appointed to command a field army sized formation (XXXX).
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Terentiy Parafilo Terentiy Mikhaylovich Parafilo (Russian: Тере́нтий Михай́лович Парафи́ло ; 28 October 1901 –24 June 1943 24 1943(1943--) (aged (1943)-(1901)-((06)<(10)or(06)==(10)and(24)<(28)) ) was a Soviet military leader. Parafilo is primarily remembered for his service during World War II, in which he first participated as commander of a Naval Infantry brigade attached to the Baltic Sea Fleet during Nazi Germany's incursion into the Baltics, then as a major general commanding the shore-based 7th Airborne Guards Division of the Soviet Army.
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Aleksandr Krymov Aleksandr Mikhailovich Krymov (October 23, 1871—August 31, 1917, Russian: Крымов Александр Михайлович ) was a Russian Imperial Lieutenant General, a military commander of Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and Russian Revolution times.
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Maximilian von Weichs Maximilian von Weichs (12 November 1881 – 27 September 1954) was a field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He commanded several armies and army groups, including the 2nd Army during Operation Barbarossa and Army Group B during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943.
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Kadi Abakarov Kadi Abakarovich Abakarov (Russian: Кади Абакарович Абакаров ) (9 May 1913 – 29 February 1948) was an Avar Red Army sergeant who fought during World War II. Abakarov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for actions in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
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Semyon Budyonny Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny Also "Budennyj", "Budyonnyy", "Budennii", "Budyoni", "Budyenny", or "Budenny"; (April 25 1883-October 26, 1973) was a Russian cavalryman, a military commander during the Russian Civil War and World War II, and a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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Arthur Schmidt (soldier) Arthur Schmidt (25 October 1895 – 5 November 1987) was an officer in the German military from 1914 to 1943. He attained the rank of "Generalleutnant" during World War II, and is best known for his role as the Sixth Army's chief of staff in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942–43, during the final stages of which he became its de facto commander, playing a large role in executing Hitler's order that it stand firm despite being encircled by the Red Army. He was a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union for twelve years, and was released following West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer's visit to Moscow in 1955.
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Friedrich Zickwolff Friedrich Zickwolff (1 August 1893 – 17 September 1944) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.
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Terentii Shtykov Terentii Fomich Shtykov (Russian:Терентий Штыков; Korean:테렌티 스티코프; 28 February [O.S. 13 March] 1907  – 25 October 1964) was effectively the first supreme leader of North Korea, as the "de facto" head of its 1945-1948 military occupation and the first Soviet Ambassador to North Korea from 1948 until 1950. Shtykov's support for Kim Il-sung was crucial in Kim's rise to power, and the two persuaded Stalin to allow the Korean War to begin in June 1950.
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Aleksei Volkov (politician) Aleksei Alekseyevich Volkov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Во́лков ; Belarusian: Аляксе́й Аляксе́евіч Во́лкаў ; 1890–1942) was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union.
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Mikhail Minin Mikhail Petrovich Minin (Russian: Михаил Петрович Минин ) (July 29, 1922 – January 10, 2008) was a Russian Soviet soldier who was the first to enter the Reichstag building on April 30, 1945 during the Battle of Berlin, and the first soldier to mount the flag on the Reichstag building at 10:40 pm.
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Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF; ) was the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until the end of World War II. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was in command of SHAEF throughout its existence. The position itself shares a common lineage with Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Atlantic, but they are different titles.