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1938
Chief of General Staff
Appointed Chief of the German General Staff
1938
Chief of Staff
Appointed Chief-of-Staff
1939
Plot
5th Nov Zossen Halder & Beck plot to arrest Hitler if he launches a western offensive
1940
Barbarossa
Warns Hitler about underestimating Russia
1940
Invasion of Britain
7th Aug Rejects the Navy's proposals for carrying the Army as "suicide"
1940
Invasion of France
16th May Writes in his diary, "the breakthrough is developing along completely classical lines"
17th May Believes France can be broken in a single sweep to the sth west
17th May Claims there is little danger of an Allied attack on the northern flank of the "Bulge"
17th May Wishes to reduce the 2 operational phases to 1
1940
Invasion of Russia
Warns Hitler about underestimating Russia
1940
Operation Sea Lion
7th Aug Rejects the Navy's proposals for carrying the Army to England as "suicide"
1941
Barbarossa
3rd Feb Outlines the General Staff's invasion plans to Hitler, the OKW & OKB
12th Nov Convinces Hitler that the Russian resistance is on the verge of collapse
1941
Invasion of Russia
3rd Feb Outlines the General Staff's invasion plans to Hitler, the OKW & OKB
12th Nov Convinces Hitler that the Russian resistance is on the verge of collapse
1941
Siege of Kiev
21st Sep Kiev Stalin evacuates Kiev but Halder says the Germans should have concentrated on Moscow
1942
Barbarossa
Kerch The Kerch Peninsular, Kharkov, Crimea & Sebastopol are captured
1942
Dismissal
Stalingrad Stalingrad & the Caucasus oil fields are not taken & Halder is dismissed
1942
Invasion of Russia
Kerch The Kerch Peninsular, Kharkov, Crimea & Sebastopol are captured
1942
Siege of Caucasus
28th Mar Rastenburg Presents Hitler's plans for the conquest of the Caucasus & Russia up the Volga

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