Feldgrau.net

tigre, I'll be on a jorney for a month approximately and I need time to translate the information into English. So I'll post it definetely but only by the beginning of September, so be patient :D By the way you information in the other topic about combats of IR 82 in first days of Barbarossa in Roza...

hi tigre!
I have plenty of information from Russian sources about the battles of 32 cavalry division on those days. Are you seeking for any additional details?

Thanks for your advice! Do you mean home-made copies or official re-editions by reprints?

Gentlemen, is there any source to buy electronic or paper copies of out-of-print WW2 books especially divisional histories? Because in most cases I can't afford original editions

Abicht wrote: I wish more divisions had similar sites (like the 299th!) .

Matt, can you please give a link to 299 ID site?

I'm 99 per cent certain it's a picture book rather than a divisional history. :( I also think so. At least several books of tis type which I already have are in fact full of pictures but not too informative. For that reason I've turned my mind to Haupt's book. I've seen the divisional site before b...

Thank you for your reply, Ericv. In fact I'm looking for any detailed account's for 12 PzDiv counerstrike attempt near Minsk aiming at halting Soviet advance to the city (place names, description of combat engagements, etc.) I assume that this kind of information can be contained in a book that I've...

It's known that 260 ID was destroyed in Minsk pocket at the beginning of July 1944 during Soviet summer offensive "Bagration". As far as I know, after retreat from defense positions along Minsk-Moscow highway the division concentrated in a huge forest, east of Minsk and was ultimately dest...

It's an old book "12.Panzer Division. Ostfront 1944. Von Minsk bei Lyck"
I have a few questions if you'll be so kind

Tigre, thank you very much for this excellent information, especially for the actions on the river Zelwianka!!! Is there something more about this area? Please... And surely waiting for the follow-up!

I would say that V/K means "voennaya kontrrazvedka" (Counter-intelligence). So the whole phrase means that he had shown up at the counter-intelligence office in Cottbus on 19/7/1945.

It looks really strange. The Feldherrnhalle's attempt to breakthrough out of the pocket in Pekalin area was at night 6-7 July. Some small groups managed to cross the Minsk-Mogilew highway but as morning came strong Russian reinforcemnts arrived and secured the area. By that date Geman lines were alr...

Very interesting. Russian sources claim that nobody managed to escape after a failed attempt to breakthroug. What's the name of the book?

This is a village about 25 km. from Moscow

Yes, it seems like Gef, not Gof. Thank you