War Without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942 (82 page)
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Authors: Robert Kershaw
7.
Interview
Der Krieg im Osten
SWF German TV, 1989.
8.
Feldpostbriefe
2 Jun 41 p67.
9.
Ullrich, K.:
Wie ein Fels im Meer – Kriegsgeschichte der 3.SS Panzerdivision ‘Totenkopf’
; Munin Verlag, Osnabrück, 1987; p99.
10.
Zeiser, B.:
In Their Shallow Graves
; Elek Books, 1956; p23.
11.
Soldat
p204.
12.
Luck, H. von:
Panzer Commander
; Praeger NY, 1989.; p56–7 and 64.
13.
Interview
Steh auf! es ist Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
14.
Diary entry 21 Jun 41. Dollinger, H.:
Kain, wo ist dein Bruder?
; Fischer Verlag, 1987; p78–9.
15.
Geheimer Bericht des Sicherheitsdienstes der SS zur interpolitischen Lage, Nr. 185. (Auszug)
from Piekalkiewicz, J:
Die Schlacht um Moskau – Die erfrorene Offensive
; Gustav Lübbe Verlag, 1981; p38.
16.
Letter Rheydt 17 Jun 41. The letter had been apprehended by the Russians.
Soviet Feldpostbriefe
p15.
17.
Letter Berlin 6 Jun 41.
Soviet Feldpostbriefe
p13.
18.
Letter M. Gladbach, 17 Jun 41.
Soviet Feldpostbriefe
p16.
19.
Interview
Der Krieg im Osten
SWF German TV, 1989.
20.
Letter 21 Jun 41
Feldpostbriefe
p68.
21.
Pabst, H.:
The Outermost Frontier
; William Kimber, London, 1957; p11.
22.
Interview
Steh auf! es ist Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
‘Endless pressure to participate’
1.
Zeiser op cit p9. On joining the army 12 May 1941.
2.
KGS
31 Jan 41 p34.
3.
Interview
Steh auf! es ist Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
4.
War of Extermination: Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941–44;
Exhibition Hamburg Institute for Social Research, 1995.
5.
Interview.
Der Verdammte Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
6.
Steinhoff, J., Pechel, P. and Showalter, D.:
Deutsche im ZweitenWeltkrieg
; Bastei- Lübbe Verlag, Gladbach, 1989; p718. Conclusion of a group of modern German historians.
7.
Kuhnert, M.:
‘WillWe See Tomorrow?
‘
— A German Cavalryman at War 1939–42
; Leo Cooper, 1993; p2.
8.
For example the American experience of the Republic of South Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict.
9.
Soldat
p138.
10.
Interview
Die Zeit
3 Mar 95.
11.
Soldat
p138.
12.
‘Voices from the Third Reich’ p51.
13.
Interview
Die Zeit
3 Mar 95.
14.
Stahlberg op cit p159–160.
15.
Prüller, W.
Diary of a German Soldier
; Faber & Faber, 1963; p63.
1.
Metelmann, H.:
Through Hell for Hitler
; Patrick Stephens, 1990; p14 and p19.
2.
Interview
Mein Krieg
WDR German TV 1988.
3.
Interview. Ibid.
4.
Becker: pen name. Becker, H.:
The Devil on my Shoulder
; Jarrolds, 1955; p16–7.
5.
Interview
Mein Krieg
WDR German TV 1988.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Metelmann op cit p21, p14 and p15.
8.
Steinhoff, Pechel and Showalter op cit p35.
9.
‘Voices from the Third Reich’ p24.
10.
Ibid p50.
11.
Ibid p56.
12.
Interview Georg Buchwald. Vol 5.
Purnell’s History of the SecondWorldWar
; p2000.
13.
Steinhoff, Pechel and Showalter op cit p125–6.
14.
Ibid p88.
15.
Ibid p150.
16.
Becker op cit p16–7.
17.
‘
Wovon kann der Landser denn schon träumen— Urlaub und Urlaub–Maschen
.’ Article Hanns–Karl Kubiak.
Band 3. Der II. Weltkrieg
1976. p26–9.
1.
Fourth Army Assessment 28 June 1940. Lewis, S. J.:
Forgotten Legions
; Praeger Special studies, 1986; p106.
2.
XXXVIII Korps Report Aug 10, 1940. Ibid p112.
3.
Ibid p103.
4.
Erfahrungsbericht
Aug 18, 1940. Ibid p107.
5.
AOK 4. Mar 20, 21, 1941.
Ibid p132.
6.
Ibid p64.
7.
May 15, 1940.
8.
OKW KTB Vol 1. p87, quoted Lewis p121.
9.
Glantz op cit p398.
10.
Lehmann, R.:
The Leibstandarte – 1 SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
; Vol II, Fedorowicz Publishing, 1988; p277.
11.
Hinze, R.:
Hitze, Frost und Pulverdampf; Der Shicksalweg der 20. Panzer Division
; Heinrich Pöppinghaus Verlag, 1981; p19.
12.
Gareis, M.:
Kampf und Ende – Der Frankisch–Sudetendeutschen 98. Infanterie–Division
; Podzun–Pallas–Verlag, 1956; p78.
13.
Ibid p80.
‘There was no information’
1.
Suvorov, V.:
WhoWas Planning to attack Whom in June 1941, Hitler or Stalin?
’ R.U.S.I. Jun 85 p54.
2.
Mackintosh, M.: ‘The Red Army Before Barbarossa’, Purnell’s
History of the Second WorldWar
; Purnell; p654.
3.
Quoted Suvorov p50.
4.
Ibid p51.
5.
The 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 24th, 28th, 16th and 22nd Armies. Ibid p51.
6.
Ibid p52. Quoted from
History of Kiev Military District
, Moscow, 1974; p162.
7.
Suvorov’s view, p83.
8.
Subsequent interrogations of Soviet POWs appear to confirm this according to Volker Dietlef Heydorn in
Der sowjetische Aufmarsch
p79–80.
9.
Heydorn op cit p83.
10.
Glantz op cit p227.
11.
Ibid p325.
12.
Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion
;
Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt in Freiburg
; p327 (Henceforth referred to as
Freiburg
).
13.
Ibid p320.
14.
Hinze op cit p23–5.
15.
Guderian, H.:
Panzer Leader
; Michael Joseph, 1952/70; p153.
16.
Interview
Steh auf! es ist Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
1.
Starinov, I. G.:
Over the Abyss – My Life in Special Operations
; Ivy Books NY, 1995; p165.
2.
Interview
Der Verdammte Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991, additional material from
Steh auf! es ist Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
3.
Starinov op cit p167–9.
4.
Heydorn op cit p149.
5.
Knopp op cit p27.
6.
Purnell’s History of the SecondWorldWar
p674–5. Popel’s personal account.
7.
Interview
Steh auf! es ist Krieg
ZDF German TV 1991.
8.
Heydorn op cit p178.
9.
Danishevsky, I.:
The Road of Battle and Glory
; Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1964; p13.
10.
Heydorn op cit p155.
11.
Ibid, quoted p150.
12.
Danishevsky op cit p14–5.
The River Bug … Brest–Litovsk
1.
Habedanck, G.: ‘
Bei Brest–Litovsk über die Grenze
’,
DieWehrmacht
, 1941, p233.
2.
Gschöpf, R.:
MeinWeg mit der 45. Infanterie Division
; Oberöstereichischer Landesverlag, 1955; p146–7.
3.
Guderian op cit p146–7.
4.
These were 125 Rifle Regiment to the NW, 333 Regiment in the Citadel, 84 Rifle Regiment in the SW and 44 and 455 Rifle Regiments from 42 Rifle Division. This section is based on Heydorn, op cit, p118 and 120–122 and
Auswertung der alten Unterlagen aus demWeltkrieg über die Festung Brest–Litovsk
. AOC 4 Ic, 9 May 41.
5.
Divisionsbefehl für den Angriff über den Bug
. 45. Div. Op. Nr. 1/41. 16 Jun 41, and Heydorn, op cit, p161–3.
6.
Interview with author 3 Oct 95.
7.
Material extracted from Wechtler video history of 45th Division.
8.
Gschöpf op cit p149.
9.
Die Wehrmacht
p233.
1.
Bekker, C.:
The LuftwaffeWar Diaries
; Macdonald & Co, 1966; p217–8 and Haupt, W.:
Sturm auf Moskau 1941;
Podzun–Pallas Verlag, 1986/90; p63.
2.
Knoke, H.:
I Flew for the Führer
; Corgi, 1956; p44–5.
3.
Döring, A. quoted in
The War Years 1941–1945
, Marshall Cavendish, p82, and H. Vowinckel
KGS
p44–5.
4.
Halder op cit 17 Feb 41 p320.
5.
Freiburg
p342–3.
6.
Ibid, Chart p362.
7.
Halder op cit 22 Feb 41 p322.
8.
Freiburg. p348.
9.
Halder op cit 27 Feb 41 p324.
10.
Kesselring, A.:
The Memoirs of Field–Marshall Kesselring
; Greenhill, 1988; p89.
11.
Ibid p90 and Bekker op cit p218.
12.
Freiburg op cit p348–9.
13.
Döring op cit p82.
14.
Berlin material from Goebbel’s Diary. Sat, 21 Jun p420–4.
15.
0830, 22 Jun 41. ‘Combat Documents of Soviet Western Front Armies 22–30 Jun 41’,
Journal of Soviet Military Studies
Sept 91 p515 (Henceforth referred to as Soviet Combat Docs). Note Russian time was one hour ahead of German.
16.
Knoke op cit p45.
17.
Guiness,
History of AirWarfare
; p114.
18.
Döring op cit p81.
19.
Bekker op cit p219.
20.
Döring op cit p81.
21.
Interview
Mein Krieg
WDR 1988.
1.
Haape, H.:
Moscow Tram Stop
; Collins, London, 1957; p13–4.
2.
Interview
Der Verdammte Krieg
ZDF German TV 1993.
3.
Stahlberg op cit p160 and 162.
4.
Interview Knopp op cit p44.
5.
Kuby op cit p106–7.
6.
Westphal op cit p46–7.
7.
Hinze op cit p25.
8.
Haape op cit p14.
9.
Letter. Kuby to his wife op cit p106.
10.
Haape op cit p15.
11.
Dollinger, H.:
Kain, wo ist dein Bruder?
; Fischer Verlag, 1987 p79.
12.
Interview. Knopp op cit p56.
13.
Soldat
p205.
14.
Adamczyk, W.:
Feuer!
’
– An Artilleryman’s life on the Eastern Front.
Broadfoot Pub Co, 1992; p64–5.
15.
Interview
Mein Krieg
Basis–Verleih film 1991.