Although the Second World War has ended for more than 70 years, some things about World War II have not been conclusive until today, among which there are many well-known generals in Nazi Germany, which of the top five are the first five? Today I will list the generals I personally think are in the top five, and see if they are different from what everyone thinks.
Fifth place: Guderian
Anyone familiar with Guderian knows that he is the father of the German panzer corps, if Hitler is the spiritual and political pillar of Nazi Germany, then Guderian is the strategic pillar of the German panzer corps, a unit strategy first, so Guderian should have ranked higher, but there are a few things that make Guderian only rank fifth in my mind.
First of all, although Guderian created the blitzkrieg tactics, the concept and essence of this tactic came from the Soviet general Vasilevsky's "Theory of Great Depth Combat", which was a very popular book in Europe at that time, and guderian's point of mention was like a guerrilla reading "On Protracted War", which gave Guderian his own theory.
The second is that Guderian basically did not participate in the war in the later period, and he was transferred to the factory as the director of the armored corps because he offended Hitler, which also made Guderian very depressed.
The third was that Guderian had ignored the power of the Panzer IV, and if he had corrected the Panzer IV, which had been a support vehicle, perhaps Nazi Germany would not have suffered so much in the middle of the war against the Soviet Union. The above three points made me put him in fifth place.
Fourth place: Dönitz
As Hitler was about to leave this world, the first person he thought of was Dönitz, who appointed Dönitz as the new Führer of Nazi Germany. After all, Dönitz was only a marshal, and the navy was the weakest of the German armies, and Dönitz's greatest achievement was to fight British transport ships, and finally to fight the United States into the war, and the United States entered the war so that the Axis countries had no chance at all.
One of the reasons Dönitz finished fourth was that he was president of Germany, an honor that no other German general had, but one of his few honors.
Third place: Rommel
I admit that the Desert Fox is very famous, but compared to the other four commander-level figures, Rommel is more like a general who is in a storm, and people always say that they are victorious in a strategic way. So did Rommel have any examples of strategizing, my impression is the Atlantic Barrier defense, Rommel carefully built a defensive line for several months, the result was easily broken by the Allies, and what is even more incomprehensible is that knowing that the Allies may launch an attack, Rommel still left the command post. In addition to self-confidence, I personally think that Rommel is not suitable for being a defender, he is more suitable for being an attacker, but unfortunately the German army has been retreating in the later stages, and there are not many opportunities for attack left for Rommel.
Second place: Kaidel
As the Marshal who signed the instrument of surrender on behalf of Nazi Germany, Kedel was fortunate and unfortunate, fortunately he made the German people no longer suffer from war, and unfortunately, as a soldier no one wanted to be a witness to such a historical moment.
The reason why Keder was able to rank second, in addition to because he ended the war, he was also a witness to the two world wars in Germany, his qualifications were unparalleled in the German army, many of the battle plans of Nazi Germany in World War II, he was also a witness and formulator, Kedel was a real commander-in-chief, and his influence was second only to Hitler.
1st place: Manstein
This was a true all-rounder, hitler's brainstor and chief staff officer, and a general who had frightened the Soviets, and few people could combine staff officers and commanders-in-chief like Manstein.
Throughout World War II, you can almost see Manstein's shadow, the invasion of France has him, the invasion of the Soviet Union has him, during 1943, he even personally became the commander of the German Army Group South, Kharkov counterattack is his classic example, in this battle, he eliminated 52 Soviet divisions in the first battle, for the Third Reich.
However, he was also a model of intransigence, having refused to carry out Hitler's orders and Hitler's stubbornness, but it was later proved that Manstein was right, and such a person deserved to be the first.
The above is the ranking of the top five German generals in my mind, welcome to interactive comments.