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Events on Friday 19 December 1941 1
1941Hitler takes personal command of the German ArmyBrauchitsch dismissed after the Moscow failureAfter the reverse before Moscow, Hitler dismissed Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and named himself commander-in-chief of the army. From then on he ran operations on the Eastern Front directly.