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When Stalin's first son was captured, Hitler offered to trade him for Friedrich Paulus, a field marshal who led the 6th army into Stalingrad. When Stalin heard of this, he allegedly said, "I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant."
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John Cleese was expelled from Clifton College as a young boy after painting footsteps on the ground to suggest that the school's statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had gotten down from its plinth and gone to the toilet
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John Cleese once defaced his school's grounds "as a prank, by painting footprints to suggest that the statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the toilet"
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Stalin's son Yakov was captured while fighting Nazis in 1941. Nazis offered to exchange him for Friedrich Paulus, the German Field Marshal captured by the Soviets, but Stalin turned the offer down allegedly saying, "I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant."; Yakov died in captivity
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The Americans botched the hanging of the German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keital. The trapdoor was too small and he smashed his head going down, and the force didn't break his neck so it took a full 24 minutes for him to suffocate.
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Ugandan dictator Idi Amin full (sell-bestowed) title was "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular"
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Nazi Field Marshal Erwin "Desert Fox" Rommel was forced on orders from Hitler to either commit suicide by cyanide pill or to have his family murdered and legacy shamed. He chose to commit suicide.
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When an Indian Captain was badly wounded in WW2 Burma and thought to be on his deathbed, he was quickly awarded a Military Cross because at the time it couldn't be given posthumously. He survived and became the first Indian to be promoted to Field Marshal.
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Field Marshall Montgomery once made a bet with Walter Bedell Smith that is if he could capture the city of Sfax by April 1943 he would receive a B17 bomber. When Monty completed his half of the bet, Smith backed out: The matter escalated all the way to Eisenhower who ensured Monty got his B17.
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During the WWI fight for Belgrade, Serbia, German troops encountered a very stiff resistance, so German Field Marshal August von Mackensen erected a monument to the Serbian soldiers who died defending Belgrade, saying, "We fought against an army that we have heard about only in fairy tales."
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White Coke a highly illegal substance in the Soviet Union. It was regular coca-cola disguised in a vodka bottle and it was given to Field Marshall Gregory Zhukov by US general Eisenhower. Zhukov could not drink coke in public as it was a symbol of capitalism so the vodka bottle disguised it.
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That, with the German Sixth Army hopelessly surrounded in Stalingrad in 1943, Hitler promoted their commander Friedrich Paulus to field marshal. There was no precedent of a German field marshal surrendering; Hitler had effectively ordered Paulus to commit suicide.
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August von Mackensen was a World War I Field Marshal who lived from 1849 to late 1945, which means he lived through the Kingdom of Prussia, North German Confederation, German Empire, Weimar Republic, Third Reich and the Allied Occupation of Germany.
During the siege of Stalingrad the commanding officer Friedrich Paulus was promoted to Field Marshal with the expectation he commit suicide rather than surrender. After he surrendered he was heard saying "I have no intention of shooting myself for a Bohemian corporal". He lived till 1957. - source
David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service, personally strangled 41 men and was described as "quite mad" by Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery. - source
The reason why the five-star general rank is called "General of the Army" instead of the traditional "Field Marshal" is because the Chief of Staff General George Marshall would be called "Marshal Marshall"
When a Napoleonic Field Marshal attended Queen Victoria's coronation, his old rival, the Duke of Wellington grabbed him by the arm and exclaimed, "I have you at last!". - source
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Richard Aoki was a Japanese/American raised in an internment camp and later became a Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party; active as weapons expert and armorer. After his 'suicide' it was learned he was an FBI informant since joining the US military.
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Anton Ludwig August von Mackensen, a German Field Marshal who served in the Military during the Franco Prussian War, WW1 and WW2. He witnessed Germany when it was the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, Weimar Republic Germany, Nazi Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany.
The youngest soldier in WW1 joined the Serbian Army at 8 (after his family was killed by Croat soldiers in 1914). Momčilo Gavrić fought in several battles, wounded, and promoted to Sergeant at 10 by a Field Marshal. In 1929, he was jailed for lying to avoid conscription, claiming prior service.
During WW2, the Germans captured one of Joseph Stalin's sons. They offered to exchange him for the captured German Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus. Stalin refused, saying "I will not trade a Field Marshall for a Lieutenant."
The full name of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular"
Hugo Sperle (1885-1953) was the field marshal of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain.