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| 1518 | Trial |  |
| Rome Albrecht sues Luther in Rome
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| 1885 | Birth | |
| 13th Nov Marhsteft Birth of Albrecht Kesselring, into a family of teachers, councillors & academics
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| 1918 | Captain | |
| Appointed Captain
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| 1919 | Battery Commander Kesselring | |
| Appointed Commander in the Reichswehr
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| 1922 | Major | |
| Appointed Major, serves in the office of the Chief of the Army
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| 1930 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander of the 4th Artillery Regiment
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| 1933 | Major | |
| 1st Oct Transferred into the air force, at that time a defensive force
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| 1935 | Major | |
| 1st Mar Appointed Major-General for to create the infrastructure of the Luftwaffe
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| 1936 | Chief of General Staff | |
| 3rd June Appointed Chief-of-General-Staff of the Luftwaffe
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| 1936 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander Luftflotte 3
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| 1936 | General of the Airforce | |
| Appointed General of the Airforce
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| 1936 | Paratroopers | |
| Creates the Paratroop Arm of the Luftwaffe
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| 1938 | Commander | |
| 1st Oct Appointed Commander Luftflotte 1, based in Berlin
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| 1939 | Invasion of Poland | |
| Commands Lufftflotte 1 which provides most of the air support
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| 1939 | Medal | |
| Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for the invasion of Poland
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| 1940 | Armistice | |
| 22nd June Helps secure an armistice with France
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| 22nd June Meets the demands of Army Group B by providing support over the Somme & the Seine
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| 1940 | Battle of River Meuse | |
| 15th May Flanders Suports the German 6th Army in Flanders
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| 1940 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander Luftflotte 2 in the west
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| 1940 | Dynamo | |
| 4th June Dunkirk The British Royal Navy evacuates 300,000 from Dunkirk
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| 1940 | Eagle Day | |
| 12th Aug 1st of 4 days to destroy British air superiority over Britain
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| 12th Aug The fighters are called back because of the bad weather & 8 bombers are lost
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| 1940 | Evacuation Dunkirk | |
| 4th June Dunkirk The British Royal Navy evacuates 300,000 from Dunkirk
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| 1940 | General Field Marshal | |
| July, appointed General Field Marshal
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| July Appointed General Field Marshal
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| 1940 | Luftwaffe | |
| Responsible for the air war against Britain & the west
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| 1940 | Operation Sea Lion | |
| Sets up a wirless intercept system to hear RAF messages
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| 20th Aug Pas de Calais Kesselring is ordered to concentrate his forces in the Pas de Calais
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| 6th Sep Goering arrives at Kesselring's HQ to take command of Operation Sealion
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| 1940 | Operation Yellow | |
| 10th May Dunkirk The 6 Fliegerkorps of Luftflotte 2 & 3 begin the war in the west
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| 25th May Dunkirk Goering holds back the Army outside Dunkirk, Kesselring objects to this strategy
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| 1941 | Barbarossa | |
| Ordered to provide air support for Army Group Centre under von Bock
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| 15th June In the 1st raid 2,500 enemy aircraft are destroyed
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| 15th June Kesselring's concentration of Luftflotte is completed
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| 1941 | Invasion of Russia | |
| Ordered to provide air support for Army Group Centre under von Bock
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| 1941 | Siege of Moscow | |
| 30th Sep Moscow Provides air support for Guderian's panzer groups
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| 1942 | Alliance | |
| Responsible for land & air forces & keeping Italy in the war
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| 1942 | Bombing of Malta | |
| Malta Orders heavy bombing of Malta because of its strategic importance to the British
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| 1942 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, South
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| 1942 | Hercules | |
| Malta At the last moment Hitler decides to cancel Operation Hercules
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| 29th April Malta Kesselring sees Operation Hercules as being essential if Suez is to be captured
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| 29th April Malta Kesselring's plan to capture Malta is agreed by Hitler & Mussolini
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| 1942 | Invasion of Africa | |
| Nov The Allies invade Algeria & Tunisia
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| 1942 | Invasion of Egypt | |
| 26th June Arrives at Rommel's HQ & reluctantly agrees to his continuation into Egypt
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| 1942 | Invasion of Sicily | |
| Nov Sicily Moves HQ to Sicily for an Allied invasion
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| 1943 | Commander | |
| 21st Nov Appointed Supreme Axis Commander in Italy
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| 1943 | Invasion of Italy | |
| Sep Commands 8 German Divisions in Italy against the Allied invasion
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| 11th Sep Launches the German counterattacks after the Allied landings at Salerno
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| 12th Sep Molina Pass Drives the British back to Molina Pass after the Allied invasion at Salerno
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| 16th Oct Gustav Line Defends the Gustav line from Minturno to Cassino
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| 16th Oct Volturno Line Forced to withdraw 15 miles nth of the Volturno Line
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| 1945 | Battle of Rhineland | |
| 23rd Mar Oppenheim Patton crosses the Rhine at Oppenheim
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| 1945 | Commander | |
| 10th Mar Appointed Commander-in-Chief, West
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| 1945 | Surrender | |
| 6th May Surrenders to the Americans
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| 1947 | Trial | |
| 6th June Venice Sentenced to death by a British Military Court for shooting 335 Italian civilians
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| 6th June Venice The death sentence is later commuted to life
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| 1952 | Arrest | |
| Pardoned & freed
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| 1977 | Assassination | |
| 28th April Oberursel Jrgen Ponto, Head of Dresdner Bank, is shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a kidnapping that went wrong, those involved are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last bei
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