There was Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a victor in Poland, France and the Ukraine, and 68 at the time of the Allied landings in Normandy.

Karl Rudolph Gerd von Rundstedt was born in Ascherleben, the son of a Prussian major general. At 12, he was a military cadet; at 17, a lieutenant in Wilhelm II’s army.

BAD NAUHEIM, Germany, Aug. 12 — Two thousand pounds of TNT crumbled the swank, 225-foot-long underground hall of former Nazi Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's wartime headquarters into a ...

A collection of snaps from the Island Farm camp near Bridgend show senior figures including Gerd von Rundstedt, who was commander in chief of the German army in Western Europe ...

In November, 1944, Commander-in-Chief West, Field Marshal Karl R. Gerd von Rundstedt's issued the following report on the " [s] ystematic, almost scientifically conducted" invasion.

Included on the list are field marshals Erwin Rommel and Gerd von Rundstedt, Gen Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel, and members of the Vichy regime.

On the night of December 12, 1944, Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt launched a mighty German assault at what he perceived to be the weakest point in the American line — the Ardennes. The action ...

For reasons that are still debated by historians, Adolf Hitler's "Halt Order" of 11.42 hours was given in support of General Gerd von Rundstedt's request to halt Kleist's panzers at the front line ...