The one commander of Army Group Don was Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) Erich von Manstein.
It was created on the 1 April 1944 by renaming Army Group South on trial basis, in the course of the separation of troops under command of General Field Marshal Erich von Manstein and General Field Marshal Walter Model.
He is best known for his biography of German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein.
He was advocate of Erich von Manstein and later author of "Manstein: His Campaigns and His Trial" (1957).
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