Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East (55 page)

39
Kempowski (ed.),
Das Echolot Barbarossa ’41
, p. 273 (7 July 1941).

40
‘Kriegstagebuch Nr.2 XXXXVII.Pz.Korps. Ia 25.5.1941 – 22.9.1941’ BA-MA RH 24–47/2 (6 July 1941).

41
‘18. Panzer Division, Abt. Ia. Kriegstagebuch Teil I vom: 22.6 – 20.8.41’ BA-MA RH 27–18/20, Fol. 31 (9 July 1941).

42
Bartov,
Hitler's Army
, p. 20.

43
Solomon Perel,
Europa Europa
(New York, 1997), pp. 35–36.

44
Glantz,
Battle for Smolensk
, pp. 14–15; Erickson,
Road to Stalingrad
, pp. 161–162.

45
‘Panzerarmeeoberkommandos Tagesmeldungen 21.6 – 31.8.41’ BA-MA RH 21–3/43, Fol. 93 (6 July 1941).

46
Glantz,
Battle for Smolensk
, p. 15; Erickson,
Road to Stalingrad
, pp. 161–162.

47
‘Tagesmeldungen der Heeresgruppe Mitte vom 22.6.41 bis 15.7.41’ BA-MA RH 19 II/128, Fol. 196 (9 July 1941).

48
‘Panzerarmeeoberkommandos Anlagen zum Kriegstagesbuch “Berichte, Besprechungen, Beurteilungen der Lage” Bd.III 25.5.41 – 22.7.41’ BA-MA RH 21–3/46, Fol. 90 (7 July 1941).

49
Fedor von Bock, KTB ‘Osten I’, Fol. 15,
War Diary
, p. 239 (6 July 1941).

50
Ibid., Fol. 18, p. 241 (7 July 1941).

51
Hoth,
Panzer-Operationen
, p. 83.

52
‘3rd Pz. Gr. KTB 25.5.41 – 31.8.41’ BA-MA Microfilm 59054, Fol. 108 (8 July 1941).

53
‘Panzerarmeeoberkommandos Anlagen zum Kriegstagesbuch “Berichte, Besprechungen, Beurteilungen der Lage” Bd.III 25.5.41 – 22.7.41’ BA-MA RH 21–3/46, Fols. 100–101 (8 July 1941).

54
Ibid. (8 July 1941). See also ‘3rd Pz. Gr. KTB 25.5.41 – 31.8.41’ BA-MA Microfilm 59054, Fols. 113–115 (9 July 1941).

55
‘KTB Nr.1 Panzergruppe 2 vom 22.6.1941 bis 21.7.41’ BA-MA RH 21–2/927, Fol. 167 (8 July 1941).

56
Ibid. (8 July 1941).

57
Guderian,
Panzer Leader
, pp. 168–169.

58
Ibid., p. 169.

59
Steven H. Newton,
Hitler's Commander. Field Marshal Walther Model – Hitler's Favorite General
(Cambridge MA, 2006), pp. 126 and 129.

60
Fedor von Bock, KTB ‘Osten I’, Fol. 21,
War Diary
, pp. 244–245 (9 July 1941).

61
Zobel, ‘3rd Panzer Division's Advance to Mogilev’, pp. 395–396.

62
Guderian,
Panzer Leader
, p. 171.

63
Fedor von Bock, KTB ‘Osten I’, Fol. 20,
War Diary
, p. 243 (8 July 1941).

64
Edgar Röhricht,
Probleme der Kesselschlacht
, Beispiel III, Der Ansatz der Heeresgruppe Mitte bei Beginn des Rußlandfeldzugs im Juni 1941.

65
Meyer,
Heusinger
, pp. 153–154.

66
Blumentritt, ‘Moscow’, p. 48.

67
Fedor von Bock, KTB ‘Osten I’, Fol. 20,
War Diary
, p. 243 (8 July 1941).

68
Glantz and House,
When Titans Clashed
, pp. 67–68.

69
Geyer, ‘German Strategy’, p. 591.

70
Glantz,
Barbarossa
, p. 68. See also Mawdsley,
Thunder in the East
, pp. 112–113.

71
Blumentritt,
Von Rundstedt
, pp. 102–103.

72
Glantz, ‘Introduction’, p. 33; Merridale,
Ivan's War
, p. 103; Glantz,
Colossus Reborn
, p. 247.

73
David Glantz stated that: ‘at least half of those mechanized corps [in the border battles] never made it into combat. They either broke down or never moved in the first place’ (Glantz, ‘Introduction’, p. 39).

74
For a helpful overview of the process see G. A. Kumanev, ‘The Soviet Economy and the 1941 Evacuation’ in Joseph Wieczynski (ed.),
Operation Barbarossa. The German Attack on the Soviet Union June 22, 1941
(Salt Lake City, 1993), pp. 163–193.

75
Werth,
Russia at War 1941–1945
, p. 216.

76
M. R. D. Foot, ‘USSR’ in I. C. B. Dear and M. R. D. Foot (eds.),
The Oxford Companion to the Second World War
(Oxford, 1995), Table 7: Production of New Weapons, p. 1231; ibid., p. 220.

77
Overy,
Russia's War
, Table I: Soviet and German Wartime Production 1941–45, p. 155.

78
Foot, ‘USSR’, Table 7: Production of New Weapons, p. 1231.

79
Overy,
Russia's War
, Table I: Soviet and German Wartime Production 1941–45, p. 155.

80
KTB OKW, Volume II, p. 1020, Documents 66 and 67 (3 and 4 July 1941).

81
Ibid., pp. 1020–1021, Document 68 (5 July 1941).

82
Ibid., p. 1021, Document 70 (8 July 1941); Franz Halder, KTB III, p. 52 (8 July 1941).

83
Franz Halder, KTB III, p. 52 (8 July 1941); Hoth,
Panzer-Operationen
, pp. 90–91.

84
Hoth,
Panzer-Operationen
, p. 91.

85
KTB OKW, Volume II, p. 1021, Document 69 (8 July 1941).

86
Franz Halder, KTB III, p. 53 (8 July 1941).

87
Ibid., p. 53 (8 July 1941).

88
Ibid., pp. 53–54 (8 July 1941).

89
Muggeridge (ed.),
Ciano's Diary
, p. 368 (9 July 1941).

90
Ibid. (10 July 1941).

91
Chapman, ‘The Imperial Japanese Navy’, p. 176.

92
Muggeridge (ed.),
Ciano's Diary
, p. 369 (11 July 1941).

93
Von Hassell,
Vom andern Deutschland
, p. 211 (13 July 1941); von Hassell,
Diaries
, p. 182 (13 July 1941).

94
Von Hassell,
Vom andern Deutschland
, p. 211 (13 July 1941); von Hassell,
Diaries
, p. 183 (13 July 1941).

95
Fedor von Bock, KTB ‘Osten I’, Fol. 23,
War Diary
, p. 246 (11 July 1941).

96
Krumpelt,
Das Material und die Kriegführung
, p. 141.

97
Fröhlich (ed.),
Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels
, Teil I: Aufzeichnungen 1923–1941 Band 9, Dezember 1940-Juli 1941, p. 402 (25 June 1941).

98
As quoted in Stephen G. Fritz,
Frontsoldaten. The German Soldier in World War II
(Lexington, 1995), p. 124.

99
Liddell Hart,
History of the Second World War
, p. 169.

100
As quoted in Fritz,
Frontsoldaten
, p. 124.

101
Bähr and Bähr (eds.),
Kriegsbriefe gefallener Studenten
, pp. 49–50 (14 August 1941).

102
Reese,
A Stranger to Myself
, p. 67.

103
Knappe with Brusaw,
Soldat
, pp. 214 and 222.

104
‘Panzerarmeeoberkommandos Anlagen zum Kriegstagesbuch “Berichte, Besprechungen, Beurteilungen der Lage” Bd.III 25.5.41 – 22.7.41’ BA-MA RH 21–3/46, Fol. 115 (11 July 1941).

105
Guderian,
Panzer Leader
, p. 171.

106
Müller, ‘Das Scheitern der wirtschaftlichen “Blitzkriegstrategie”’, pp. 963–964.

107
Liddell Hart,
The Other Side of the Hill
, p. 271.

108
Ibid.

109
Landon and Leitner (eds.),
Diary of a German Soldier
, p. 81 (11 July 1941).

110
Liddell Hart,
The Other Side of the Hill
, p. 271.

111
Department of the U.S. Army (ed.),
German Armored Traffic Control
, p. 4.

112
Durrwanger, ‘28th Infantry Division Operations’, p. 438.

113
General Lingenthal, ‘Discussion’ in David M. Glantz (ed.),
The Initial Period of War
, p. 444.

114
General Lemm, ‘Discussion’ in David M. Glantz (ed.),
The Initial Period of War
, p. 444.

115
Stahlberg,
Bounden Duty
, p. 172.

116
Lubbeck with Hurt,
At Leningrad's Gates
, p. 88.

117
Liddell Hart,
The Other Side of the Hill
, p. 271. See also Hermann Geyer,
Das IX. Armeekorps
, p. 100.

118
Franz Halder, KTB III, p. 64 (11 July 1941).

119
Ibid., pp. 64–65 (11 July 1941).

120
Georg Meyer (ed.),
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen und Lagebeurteilungen aus zwei Weltkriegen
(Stuttgart, 1976), p. 292 (12 July 1941). Hereafter cited as: Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, KTB.

121
Franz Halder, KTB III, p. 68 (12 July 1941).

122
Ibid., p. 69 (12 July 1941).

123
Ibid., p. 72 (13 July 1941).

124
Glantz,
Battle for Smolensk
, p. 22.

125
‘KTB 3rd Pz. Div. vom 16.8.40 bis 18.9.41’ BA-MA RH 27–3/14, pp. 90–91 (12 July 1941).

126
In the summer of 1941 a typical German panzer division was made up of a panzer regiment divided into three battalions. In addition, there was also a brigade of infantry, a battalion of anti-tank guns, a battalion of armoured reconnaissance, a regiment of artillery, a signals battalion and an engineers’ battalion.

127
‘Kriegstagebuch 4.Panzer-Division Führungsabtl. 26.5.41 – 31.3.42’ BA-MA RH 27–4/27, p. 43 (13 July 1941).

128
R. Koch-Erpach, ‘4th Panzer Division's Crossing of the Dnepr River and the Advance to Roslavl’ in David M. Glantz (ed.),
The Initial Period of War
, p. 403.

129
Guderian,
Panzer Leader
, p. 173.

130
Glantz,
Battle for Smolensk
, pp. 21–22.

131
As quoted in Clark,
Barbarossa
, p. 80.

132
‘Panzerarmeeoberkommandos Anlagen zum Kriegstagesbuch “Berichte, Besprechungen, Beurteilungen der Lage” Bd.III 25.5.41 – 22.7.41’ BA-MA RH 21–3/46, Fol. 151 (13 July 1941).

133
Ibid. (13 July 1941).

134
Franz Halder, KTB III, p. 72 (13 July 1941).

135
Ibid., p. 73 (13 July 1941).

136
Ibid. (13 July 1941).

137
Fedor von Bock, KTB ‘Osten I’, Fol. 23,
War Diary
, p. 247 (13 July 1941).

138
Ibid., Fol. 24, p. 247 (13 July 1941).

139
Ibid., Fol. 24, p. 248 (13 July 1941).

140
Franz Halder, KTB III, p. 74 (13 July 1941).

141
Blumentritt, ‘Moscow’, p. 51.

142
‘Panzerarmeeoberkommandos Anlagen zum Kriegstagesbuch “Berichte, Besprechungen, Beurteilungen der Lage” Bd.III 25.5.41 – 22.7.41’ BA-MA RH 21–3/46, Fol. 150 (14 July 1941).

143
Blumentritt, ‘Moscow’, p. 51. See also Blumentritt's comments to Liddell Hart in Liddell Hart,
The Other Side of the Hill
, p. 275.

144
Blumentritt, ‘Moscow’, pp. 34–35.

145
Richard Lamb, ‘Kluge’ in Correlli Barnett (ed.),
Hitler's Generals
(London, 1989), pp. 404–408; Mitcham,
Hitler's Field Marshals
, p. 299.

146
Hürter,
Hitlers Heerführer
, pp. 294–295, footnotes 78 and 79.

147
Macksey, ‘Guderian’, pp. 452–453; Macksey,
Guderian
, p. 142; Kenneth Macksey, ‘Generaloberst Heinz Guderian’ in Gerd R. Ueberschär (ed.),
Hitlers militärische Elite
(Darmstadt, 1998), p. 83.

148
The ‘Oka sector’ pertains to the Oka River which runs north until it reaches Kaluga about 150 kilometres southwest of Moscow. ‘KTB Nr.1 Panzergruppe 2 vom 22.6.1941 bis 21.7.41’ BA-MA RH 21–2/927, Fol. 222 (14 July 1941).

149
‘Panzerarmeeoberkommandos Anlagen zum Kriegstagesbuch “Berichte, Besprechungen, Beurteilungen der Lage” Bd.III 25.5.41 – 22.7.41’ BA-MA RH 21–3/46, Fol. 153 (13 July 1941); Hoth,
Panzer-Operationen
, p. 93.

150
Trevor-Roper (ed.),
Hitler's War Directives 1939–1945
, p. 137.

151
Italics in the original; ibid, p. 138.

152
‘Panzerarmeeoberkommandos Anlagen zum Kriegstagesbuch “Berichte, Besprechungen, Beurteilungen der Lage” Bd.III 25.5.41 – 22.7.41’ BA-MA RH 21–3/46, Fol. 153 (13 July 1941). See also Hoth,
Panzer-Operationen
, pp. 92–93.