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Hi AHK, I hope that you have found my book useful. I decided not to include Kurmark in 'Fire Brigades' since the Aufstellungsbefehl says that it was to be organized as "Panzer-Grenadier Division 44". As a matter of fact, during the closing months of the war there was very little difference...

Mr. roadking, OOB information and strength/losses figures are a very delicate matter that is rarely available in the published works. What I posted here is taken from an archival source, which was generously shared with me by the renowned Swedish researcher Niklas Zetterling a while ago. Apparently,...

Well, the axis side was represented by the right flank of 1.PzArmy (III PzK) and the entire Hungarian 1.Army. III PzK consisted of 1.ID, 367.ID, 101.JgD, 6.PzD and 17.PzD. Heerestruppen included sPzAbt 506, II./PzR 23, StuGBrig 249, StuGBrig 301 and sPzJgAbt 88. By the end of April they were joined ...

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I may pick up Alex's book through eastview.com, but I do not read Russian so I'd have to have one of my friends translate any portions I might be interested in reading. Stephen, if you encounter any problems with the purchasing of the book - just let me know and I'll fix the things ASAP. I believe ...

Two Russian books: "Posledny shturm" (published in 1970) and Alexey Isaev's "Berlin 45-go" (2007). "Posledny shturm" has some very good maps and detailed OOB of the both sides from north to the south. It was written mainly from operational point of view and do not provi...

Well Stephan, I'm afraid that you're information is not very correct here. There were three defensive lines before Cottbus and the town itself was sort of incorporated into the third one. During the day 1 the 3rd Guards Army breached the first one and reached the third one by day 3. By that time the...

Well, let's see... II.SS-PzK comes naturally; by the end of May the frontline of HGr Nordukraine was extended to the north to include the Kowel sector with LVI PzK; there were three other Panzerkorps commands with HGr Nordukraine: III., XXIV. and XXXXVIII. Hopefully, the PzAOK 4 records will tell mo...

On 1 Dec 1944: Ca. 11,000 men, 73 PzIV, FlakPzIV & BefPz, 8 StuG, 191 SPW & PzSpWg, 9 Marders, 9 Wespe, 18 Howitzers, 8 AT Guns

On 27 January, i.e. shortly after the arrival of the division from Courland, an order was issued to transfer I./PzR 35 to the Grafenwöhr training ground, Bavaria (WK XIII), for rebuilding. The short break ended on 19 February when an order was issued to transfer I./PzR 35 from Grafenwöhr back to the...

The papers of Gen.Insp.PzTr contain some proposals regarding the creation of "a strong Panzer Army" intended for "an offensive action in the East" On 24.4.1944 Guderian proposed the involvement of the following troops: - from the West: 2.PzD, 2.SS-PzD, I.SS-PzK (1.SS-PzD and 12.S...

Sorry,

I have no idea.

Two rolls of PzAOK 4 (313/391 & 392) deal almost exclusively with Sword & Shield. No document of the HGr Nordukraine files has survived the war. BTW, Ziemke has dedicated a whole page to that plan in his classics "From Stalingrad to Berlin"

Operation Schwert und Schild (Sword and Shield) was a Zeitzler's brainchild, which purpose was the destruction of a large Soviet offensive grouping in the Kowel - Ternopol area. It was planned as Kursk-like preemptive strike and was strongly advocated by Model. The number of the panzer divisions int...

German troops officialy reported as destroyed by OKH in result of the Jassy-Kishinev Operation: Corps headquarters: - IV Armeekorps - VII Armeekorps - XXX Armeekorps - XXXXIV Armeekorps - LII Armeekorps Corps troops: - Feldgendarmerie-Trupp 404 - Feldpostamt 404 - Kraftfahr-Kompanie 404 - Kfz-Instan...