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Hitlers panzer armies spearheaded the blitzkrieg on the Eastern Front. They played a key role in every major campaign, not simply as tactical tools but also as operational weapons that shaped strategy. Their extraordinary triumphs and their eventual defeat mirrors the fate of German forces in the East. And yet no previous study has concentrated on the history of these elite formations in the bitter struggle against the Soviet Union. Robert Kirchubels absorbing and meticulously researched account of the operational history of the panzer armies fills this gap in the literature. And it gives a graphic insight into the organization, tactics, fighting methods and morale of the Wehrmacht at the height of its powers and as it struggled to defend the Reich. Using German sources, including many first-hand accounts seen for the first time in English, the author reconstructs the operations of the panzer armies from the launch of Operation Barbarossa in 1941 to the German collapse in May 1945. He follows each army and its men through the series of massive offensives and counteroffensives that swung across a vast front that stretched from the Baltic in the north to the Caucasus in the south. Their far-reaching campaigns included the ill-fated assault on Moscow, anti-partisan operations in the Balkans and the defense of Germanys Fatherland. His study is a valuable addition to the history of the Nazi-Soviet conflict and to understanding the part played by armored formations in the world war as a whole. It is absorbing reading. Robert Kirchubel recently retired from the US Army as a Lieutenant Colonel after serving in Armor Officer positions ranging from tank platoon leader to acting commander of a mechanized brigade. He is a university-trained historian and currently teaches Military Science at Purdue University in Indiana. He has made a special study of armored warfare and the war on the Eastern Front, and has recently published a three-volume account of Operation Barbarossa. He has also written on other aspects of the Second World War in Europe and the Pacific, and he has contributed to The International Military Encyclopedia. REVIEWS an excellent book, readable, and fast moving, telling the full story of the Panzer armies advances and ultimately, their defeat. Military Scale Modeler, 02/2010

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I rode a tank,
Held a generals rank,
When the blitzkrieg raged
and the bodies stank
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Sympathy for the Devil/London Years
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First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Pen Sword Military an imprint of - photo 1

First published in Great Britain in 2009 by
Pen & Sword Military
an imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
47 Church Street
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 2AS

Copyright Robert Kirchubel 2009

ISBN: 9781844159284
Digital Edition ISBN: 9781848847002

The right of Robert Kirchubel to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Contents

Preface

This book is written to the glory of God. I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks to my wife Linda, and sons Mason and Marc for their forbearance and patience. During hundreds of hours stretched over dozens of weeks, I literally ignored them (in the highest tradition of the historian/author) while sequestered in the War Room doing research and writing. I also want to acknowledge the editing team that has supported me since the earliest days of my Osprey Operation Barbarossa trilogy: fact-checker Gary Komar, and grammarian Joe Wilson the Henry Higgins of the group. Gary, a fine military historian in his own right, provided the basic research for the sidebars on commanders, weapons, training, etc. Thanks also to my map-maker, Chris Mankey. Kudos as well to the InterLibrary Loan Department at Purdue Universitys HSSE Library.

I also want to show appreciation to the editing staff at Pen & Sword Books. Based on my earlier works, Rupert Harding contacted me with an offer to write for them on almost any military history topic I wanted. For about twenty years I had been mulling over the idea of a history of the German panzer armies. I pitched the idea to Rupert and he immediately agreed. The only downside to the whole preparation process was a stillborn visit to the great Russian battlefields described herein, cancelled in 2007 by an emergency just a fortnight before realization. That trip was meant to be a bookend to my fantastic visit to the Ukraine in 2005.

Hitlers Panzer Armies on the Eastern Front is a work of synthesis. Its writing involved no archival research, nor did I discover a treasure trove of never-before-seen documents. I have taken existing materials, mainly secondary source books, and have mined them for insights on the operations of the four panzer armies that fought in the Nazi-Soviet War from Barbarossatag (22 June 1941) until VE Day (8 May 1945). I used both old and new classics - Erickson, Ziemke, Glantz, as well as recent scholarship and German unit histories (often of uneven quality) from Haupt to Scheibert. Where practical, I have tried to look at First, Second, Third and Fourth Panzer Armies through the lens of the operational level of war. Sometimes this was practical usually during the major offensive operations other times it was not when the panzer armies were just another slab of human flesh Hitler threw into the giant meat-grinder that represented the so-called Eastern Front. A final caveat: the fact that the main characters here are German is in no way meant to detract from the heroism and skill of the Workers and Peasants Red Army and the Soviet people. As a retired US Army officer, I have absolutely no qualms about giving the USSR the lions share of the credit for destroying Hitlers Third Reich.

Some notes on naming units and other technicalities: the Germans reorganized panzer groups into panzer armies 5 October 1941 (First and Second) and 1 January 1942 (Third and Fourth). However, for the sake of consistency and simplicity, beginning with Operation Barbarossa, I will only use the term panzer army. Also, through much of Barbarossa, panzer corps were technically named Corps (Motorized), but again, I will use panzer corps throughout. I will follow the German convention for numbering their formations: Arabic ordinals for divisions, Roman numerals for corps, and spelled-out ordinals for armies. Consistent with the official History of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-1945, Red Army units will be described by Arabic ordinals in all cases except for named fronts. Further, mainly due to the massive and confusing nature of the Nazi-Soviet War, even the most-respected and well-intentioned secondary sources often disagree on dates, orders of battle and other details. Therefore, for ranks and dates on which various German generals took or relinquished command, I referred to Wolf Keileg, Das deutsche Heer, 1939-1945. For dates when a certain city changed hands, etc., if secondary sources conflicted, I used H-A Jacobsen, A Hilgruber, W Hubatsch, PE Schramm (eds), Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht. For all German orders of battle, in the text and appendices, I used the official Federal German BundesarchivMilitarchiv Internet site (unless otherwise noted). While these sources may not be one-hundred per cent accurate themselves, they do provide a uniform standard.

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Key to Maps

1. Barbarossa: Fourth Panzer Army

2. Barbarossa: Third Panzer Army

3. Barbarossa: Second Panzer Army

4. Barbarossa: First Panzer Army (West)

5. Barbarossa: Fourth Panzer Army (East)

6. Typhoon: Second, Third and Fourth Panzer Armies

7. Fridericus, Wilhelm and Blau: First and Fourth Panzer Armies

8. Blau and Winter Storm: Fourth Panzer Army

9. Defense of Army Group Center: Second and Third Panzer Armies

10. Blau: First Panzer Army

11. Backhand Blow and Citadel: First and Fourth Panzer Armies

12. Balkans: Second Panzer Army

13. Defense of the Ukraine (East): First and Fourth Panzer Armies

14. Defense of the Ukraine (West): First and Fourth Panzer Armies

15. Defense of Hungary and Czechoslovakia: First Panzer Army

16. Defense of the Baltics: Third Panzer Army

17. Defense of Poland and the Reich: Third and Fourth Panzer Armies

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