Otto von Below | Austrian military officer | Britannica (original) (raw)

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role in World War I

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  In Battle of Caporetto: Clashes on the Isonzo
  …the Fourteenth German Army under Otto von Below, with Krafft as chief of staff and guiding light. These troops were to penetrate the mountain barrier of the Julian Alps at the northeastern corner of the Venetian salient on a line running from the Rombon-Bovec region southeastward past Tolmino, with Caporetto…
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  In World War I: Caporetto
  …and nine Austrian ones under Otto von Below, with Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen as his chief of staff, on October 24, 1917, began to force its way over the barrier of the Julian Alps at the northeastern corner of the Venetian salient, with Caporetto approximately opposite the middle point of…
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