Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945: Red Steamroller

30. David M. Glantz, Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Sring 1944 (Larence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007), pp. 39.

31. Jung, pp. 204.

32. Glantz, pp. 120–122.

33. Glantz, pp. 192.

34. Glantz, pp. 194–5.

35. Jung, pp. 210.

36. Glantz, pp. 228–229.

37. Glantz, pp, 249.

38. Glantz, pp. 272–273.

39. Glantz, pp. 317.

40. Rolf Hinze, To The Bitter End (Philadelphia: Casemate, 2010), pp. 69.

41. Jentz, Volume 2, pp. 205.

42. Walter S. Dunn, Jr., Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia (Mechanichsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008), pp. 61.

43. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., The German Defeat in the East 1944–45 (Mechanichsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2007), pp. 10–14.

44. Mikhail Baryatinski, Sredniy tank ‘Sherman’, Vmeste i protiv T-34 [Medium Tank Sherman: With and Against the T-34] (Moscow: Eksmo, 2006), pp. 67.

45. Steven Zaloga, Bagration 1944: The Destruction of Army Group Centre (London: Osprey Publishing, 1996), pp. 42.

46. Mitcham, pp. 48.

47. Mitcham, pp. 27.

48. Steven Zaloga, T-34/85 Medium Tank 1944–1994 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1996), pp. 11–12.

49. Eduard Bodenmüller, Diary of a Tank Gunner in the Panzer Regiment of the Brandenburg Panzergrenadier Division, February 1945 (New York: Europa Books Inc., 2004), pp. 61.

50. Gunter Grass, How I Spent the War: A recruit in the Waffen S.S., The New Yorker, June 4, 2007.

Appendix II

1. Fichtner had been in charge of the Heereswaffenamt Wa-Prüf 6 in the critical years of 1937–42, where he played an important role in panzer development programs. Fichtner was badly wounded in mid-September 1943 and put in the Fuhrer-Reserve. He was arrested by the Gestapo after the 20 July Plot and spent two months in detention before being released, but saw no further service.

2. General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz listed as commander from 6 May until 29 August 1943

3. Committed suicide when caught behind enemy lines, 7 August 1943.

4. Relieved of command on 15 November 1943.

5. Killed in action, 18 August 1943.

6. Killed in action 11 March 1944.

7. Killed in action, 31 March 1944.

8. Killed in action, 24 September 1943.

Appendix IV

1. Name changed to Nashorn in January 1944.

Appendix V

1. Committed suicide, 6 July 1944.

2. Captured in Romania, 1944.

3. Killed in action, 25 August 1944.

4. Killed in action, 28 August 1944.

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