Prit Buttar - Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43

DEDICATION
For Tom Saunders

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Arnim, Hans-Jrgen von , Generaloberst commander XXXIX Panzer Corps

Becker, Carl , Oberst commander 18th Grenadier Regiment

Bieler, Bruno , General commander VI Corps

Bittrich, Wilhelm , Brigadefhrer commander SS Cavalry Division

Bix, Hermann , Feldwebel tank crewman

Blumentritt, Gnther , Oberst chief of staff, Fourth Army, later Chief Quartermaster of the Army

Bock, Fedor von , Field Marshal commander Army Group Centre

Bodenhausen, Gustav Freiherr von , Oberst commander 31st Panzer Regiment, 5th Panzer Division, and eponymous battlegroup

Brauchitsch, Walther von , Field Marshal commander-in-chief German Army

Bundrock, Georg , Oberst head of intelligence, Ninth Army

Burdach, Karl , Generalmajor commander 251st Infantry Division

Canaris, Wilhelm , Admiral head of the Abwehr

Cetto, Walter , Oberst commander eponymous battlegroup, 5th Panzer Division

Chevallerie, Kurt von der , General commander LIX Corps

Eberbach, Heinrich , Oberstleutnant panzer regiment commander, 4th Panzer Division

Elverfeldt, Harald Freiherr von , Oberst chief of staff, Ninth Army

Esebeck, Hans-Carl Freiherr von , Generalmajor commander 2nd Panzer Division

Fegelein, Hermann , Standartenfhrer commander SS Cavalry Brigade

Fehn, Gustav , Generalleutnant commander 5th Panzer Division

Fretter-Pico, Maximilian , General commander XXX Corps

Frydag, Harro Freiherr von , Hauptmann commander motorcycle battalion, 1st Panzer Division

Gablenz, Eccard von , Generalleutnant commander XXVII Corps

Gehlen, Reinhardt , Oberst head of FHO

Grossmann, Horst , Generalmajor commander 6th Infantry Division

Guderian, Heinz , General commander Second Panzer Group

Halder, Franz , Generaloberst chief of the general staff, OKH

Harpe, Josef , General commander XLI Panzer Corps

Heinrici, Gotthard , General commander XLIII Corps, later commander Fourth Army

Heusinger, Adolf , Generalleutnant head of operations staff, OKH

Hilpert, Carl , General commander XXIII Corps

Hitter, Alfons , Generalmajor commander 206th Infantry Division

Hobe, Cord von , Major senior staff officer, Grossdeutschland

Hoepner, Erich , Generaloberst commander Fourth Panzer Group

Holste, Rudolf , Oberst commander eponymous battlegroup, 1st Panzer Division

Hrnlein, Walter , Generalmajor commander Grossdeutschland Division

Huppert, Helmut , Hauptmann commander panzergrenadier battalion, 1st Panzer Division

Jodl, Alfred , General chief of operations staff, OKW

Kassnitz, Erich , Oberst commander Fusilier Regiment, Grossdeutschland Division

Kauder, Richard head of Dienststelle Klatt

Kinzel, Eberhard , Oberst head of FHO

Kluge, Gnther von , Generaloberst commander Fourth Army, later commander Army Group Centre

Knobelsdorff, Otto von , Generalmajor commander 19th Panzer Division

Khler, Otto , Oberst commander Panzergrenadier Regiment, Grossdeutschland

Krebs, Hans , Oberst chief of staff, Ninth Army

Krger, Walter , Generalmajor commander 1st Panzer Division

Kbler, Ludwig , General commander Fourth Army

Lindig, Max , Generalleutnant chief of artillery, Ninth Army

Longin, Ira Fedorovich member of the Max spy network

Lorenz, Karl , Major commander of combat engineer battalion, Grossdeutschland , subsequently commander of eponymous battlegroup

Lttwitz, Heinrich Freiherr von , Generalmajor commander 20th Panzer Division

Manstein, Erich von , Generaloberst, later Field Marshal commander LVI Motorised (later Panzer) Corps, later Eleventh Army, later Army Group Don

Martinek, Robert , General commander XXXIX Panzer Corps

Meden, Karl-Friedrich von der , Oberst commander eponymous cavalry group

Metz, Eduard , Generalleutnant commander 5th Panzer Division

Meyer, Otto , Oberst chief of combat engineers, Ninth Army

Model, Walter , General commander Ninth Army

Ptzold, Hellmuth , Oberst commander 2nd Luftwaffe Field Division

Paulus, Friedrich , Generalleutnant (later Field Marshal) Quartermaster-General, later commander Sixth Army

Praun, Albert , Generalmajor commander 129th Infantry Division and eponymous battlegroup

Reinhardt, Hans-Georg , General commander Third Panzer Group

Richthofen, Wolfram von , General commander Fliegerkorps VIII , later commander VI Corps

Romanov, Georgi Leonidovich member of Dienststelle Klatt

Ruoff, Richard , General commander V Corps, later commander Fourth Panzer Army

Scherer, Theodor , Generalleutnant commander 83rd Infantry Division

Schmidt, Gustav , Oberst commander 19th Panzer Division

Schmidt, Rudolf , Generaloberst commander Second Army, later commander Second Panzer Army, later personal adjutant to Hitler

Stieber, Kurt , Major panzergrenadier battalion commander, 5th Panzer Division

Strauss, Adolf , Generaloberst commander Ninth Army

Trumpa, Kurt , Hauptmann commander eponymous battlegroup, 1st Panzer Division

Turkul, Anton Vasilievich member of the Max spy network

Vietinghoff, Heinrich von , General commander XLVI Panzer Corps

Warschauer, Horst , Leutnant commander eponymous battlegroup, Grossdeutschland

Weiss, Walter , General commander XXVII Corps

Wessel, Walter , Generalmajor commander 12th Panzer Division

Wietersheim, Wend von , Oberst commander eponymous battlegroup, 1st Panzer Division

Zeitzler, Kurt , General chief of the general staff, OKH

Andrusenko, Kornei Mikhailovich , Colonel commander 329th Infantry Division

Arman, Paul Matisovich , Colonel acting commander I Tank Corps

Baranov, Viktor Kirillovich , Major General commander 1st Guards Cavalry Division

Belov, Pavel Alekseevich , Lieutenant General commander I Guards Cavalry Corps

Bodnar, Aleksander Vasilevich , Lieutenant tank commander

Bogatsky, Mikhail Moiseevich paratrooper

Bogdanov, Ivan Aleksandrovich , Lieutenant Colonel deputy commander Thirty-Ninth Army

Boldin, Ivan Vasilevich , Lieutenant General commander Fiftieth Army

Dovator, Lev Mikhailovich , Major General commander III Cavalry Corps, later renamed II Guards Cavalry Corps

Dremov, Ivan Fedorovich , Colonel commander 47th Mechanised Brigade

Dbendorfer, Rachel spy codenamed Sissy

Efremov, Mikhail Grigorevich , Lieutenant General commander Thirty-Third Army

Eremenko, Andrei Ivanovich , Colonel General commander Bryansk Front

Galitsky, Kuzma Nikitovich , Lieutenant General commander Third Shock Army

Getman, Andrei Lavrentiyevich , Major General commander VI Tank Corps

Gluzdovsky, Vladimir Alekseevich , Major General commander Thirty-First Army

Grishin, Petr Grigorevich , Brigade Commissar commissar VI Tank Corps

Gorbachevsky, Boris Semenovich soldier in the Red Army

Iushchuk, Ivan Ivanovich , Colonel acting commander VI Tank Corps

Iushkevich, Vasilii Aleksandrovich , Major General commander Twenty-Second Army

Katukov, Mikhail Efimovich , Major General commander 1st Guards Brigade, later commander III Mechanised Corps

Kazankin, Aleksandr Fedorovich , Colonel chief of staff IV Airborne Corps (and de facto commander)

Kazaryan, Ashot Vagarshakovich junior tank officer

Khlebnikov, Nikolai Mikhailovich , Major General commander of artillery, Kalinin Front