Miguel Coello
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Miguel Coello
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Ingeniero Civil, orgulloso egresado de la UADY y ex-alumno Marista.
Mérida, Yucatán Katılım Mayıs 2012
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I’ve probably been to thousands of football games but last night at the Azteca beats the lot. What an incredible, tumultuous, sensational game in a stupendous venue. So so lucky to have been in town to witness it in all it’s glory. Just wow. #MEXENG #fifaworldcup




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Gerd von Rundstedt (1875–1953) entered the Nuremberg Trials in 1945 as the most senior surviving officer of the former German Army, closing a military career that had spanned 52 years. A Prussian aristocrat and career soldier, he had served in the First World War, the interwar Reichswehr, and the Wehrmacht, becoming one of Hitler’s most experienced field commanders. His presence at Nuremberg symbolised the collapse of the traditional German officer corps, whose senior figures had been drawn into a war they neither fully controlled nor openly resisted.
During the Second World War, Rundstedt held major commands on every front except North Africa. He oversaw the invasion of Poland in 1939, commanded Army Group A during the 1940 campaign in France, and later directed operations on the Eastern Front, including the 1941 advance into Ukraine. In 1942 he became Commander‑in‑Chief West, responsible for defending the Atlantic Wall. Although he disagreed with Hitler on strategic matters—particularly the rigid “no‑retreat” orders—he never openly defied the regime. His stance toward the anti‑Hitler conspiracies was one of detached awareness: he knew of various plots but neither supported nor opposed them, reflecting both personal caution and the conservative ethos of the officer corps.
By 1944–45, Rundstedt was recalled repeatedly despite age and ill health, a sign of the Wehrmacht’s dwindling pool of senior commanders. His final months in office coincided with the collapse of German defences in the West. Captured by Allied forces, he was held as a potential defendant but ultimately deemed medically unfit for trial. He appeared at Nuremberg only as a witness.
Rundstedt’s career illustrates the contradictions of the German military elite: professional, tradition‑bound, often sceptical of Hitler, yet ultimately complicit through obedience and inaction. His long service ended not on a battlefield but in the courtroom of a defeated regime.

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