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Table of Contents

The Stackpole Military History Series

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

Cavalry Raids of the Civil War

Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard

Picketts Charge

Witness to Gettysburg

WORLD WAR I

Doughboy War

WORLD WAR II

After D-Day

Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS, 1943-45

Armoured Guardsmen

Army of the West

Australian Commandos

The B-24 in China

Backwater War

The Battle of Sicily

Battle of the Bulge, Vol. 1

Battle of the Bulge, Vol. 2

Beyond the Beachhead

Beyond Stalingrad

The Brandenburger Commandos

The Brigade

Bringing the Thunder

The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign

Coast Watching in World War II

Colossal Cracks

A Dangerous Assignment

D-Day Bombers

D-Day Deception

D-Day to Berlin

Destination Normandy

Dive Bomber!

A Drop Too Many

Eagles of the Third Reich

Eastern Front Combat

Exit Rommel

Fist from the Sky

Flying American Combat Aircraft of World War II

For Europe

Forging the Thunderbolt

For the Homeland

Fortress France

The German Defeat in the East, 1944-45

German Order of Battle, Vol. 1

German Order of Battle, Vol. 2

German Order of Battle, Vol. 3

The Germans in Normandy

Germanys Panzer Arm in World War II

GI Ingenuity

Goodwood

The Great Ships

Grenadiers

Hitlers Nemesis

Infantry Aces

In the Fire of the Eastern Front

Iron Arm

Iron Knights

Kampfgruppe Peiper at the Battle of the Bulge

The Key to the Bulge

Knights Cross Panzers

Kursk

Luftwaffe Aces

Luftwaffe Fighter Ace

Massacre at Tobruk

Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism?

Messerschmitts over Sicily

Michael Wittmann, Vol. 1

Michael Wittmann, Vol. 2

Mountain Warriors

The Nazi Rocketeers

No Holding Back

On the Canal

Operation Mercury

Packs On!

Panzer Aces

Panzer Aces II

Panzer Commanders of the Western Front

Panzer Gunner

The Panzer Legions

Panzers in Normandy

Panzers in Winter

The Path to Blitzkrieg

Penalty Strike

Red Road from Stalingrad

Red Star under the Baltic

Retreat to the Reich

Rommels Desert Commanders

Rommels Desert War

Rommels Lieutenants

The Savage Sky

Ship-Busters

The Siegfried Line

A Soldier in the Cockpit

Soviet Blitzkrieg

Stalins Keys to Victory

Surviving Bataan and Beyond

T-34 in Action

Tank Tactics

Tigers in the Mud

Triumphant Fox

The 12th SS, Vol. 1

The 12th SS, Vol. 2

Twilight of the Gods

Typhoon Attack

The War against Rommels

Supply Lines

War in the Aegean

Wolfpack Warriors

Zhukov at the Oder

THE COLD WAR / VIETNAM

Cyclops in the Jungle

Expendable Warriors

Flying American Combat Aircraft: The Cold War

Here There Are Tigers

Land with No Sun

Phantom Reflections

Street without Joy

Through the Valley

WARS OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Never-Ending Conflict

GENERAL MILITARY HISTORY

Carriers in Combat

Cavalry from Hoof to Track

Desert Battles

Guerrilla Warfare

Ranger Dawn

Sieges

English translation 2010 by Battle Born Books and Consulting

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Schufler, Hans, 1912
[So lebten und so starben sie. English]
Knights Cross panzers : the German 35th Tank Regiment in World War II / Hans
Schufler.
p. cm.(Stackpole military history series)

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-8117-0592-9 (pbk.)

1. Germany. Heer. Panzer-Regiment 35. 2. World War, 1939-1945Regimen
tal historiesGermany. 3. World War, 1939-1945Personal narratives, German.
4. Germany. Heer. Panzer-Regiment 35Biography. 5. Schufler, Hans, 1912- 6.
SoldiersGermanyBiography. 7. World War, 1939-1945Tank warfare. 8. World
War, 1939-1945CampaignsEastern Front. I. Title.
D757.5735th .S33 2010
940.541343dc22

2009053645

Introduction

Panzer-Regiment 35 in Five Years of War

General der Panzertruppen a.D. Heinrich Eberbach

There is no end to the number of unforgettable images conjured up by anyone who was ever a member of this troop. The tankers can still be proud of their regiment to this day; it performed great deeds in battle from the start of the war to the bitter end. Exemplary comradeship, proper behavior towards the enemy and a proper attitude, even in unfortunate times, were the marks of this formation.

Our regiment was not formed until November 1938 as part of the rapid expansion of the German Armed Forces. Insufficiently trained and only equipped with a few Panzer IIIs and IVs , the men marched off to war in Poland less than 10 months after first being activated. But by the eighth day of the campaign, we were outside the gates of Warsawfar in advance of all of the restand we attacked the fortified city without hesitation.

We participated in the first large-scale armored engagement of the war in France, took Armentires in a night attack and advanced through the Weygand Line as far as Isre. I remember the unbelievable chain of victories of our regiment in the first year of the campaign in Russia. At the time, we were part of the 2. Panzer-Armee , which was commanded by Generaloberst Guderian, the creator of the German armored forces and its guiding spirit. He was called fast Heinz by the common foot soldier. He often liked to appear in the middle of the fighting at the regiments location.

It is with gratitude that I also recall the first few battalion commanders of the regimentStenglein, Hochbaum and Lauchert.

The reassignment of our 2nd Battalion to Panzer-Regiment 15 was hard. The battalion performed so well there, that it was difficult to incorporate the Panther battalion back into the fold of the regiment.

The 1st Battalion, whether under the command of Cossel, who was killed, the battalion physician, Knights Cross recipient Doctor Schulz-Merkel or, above all, Schultz, maintained its fame at Kursk and Orel, in the Pripet Marshes and at Kovel.

What the regiment accomplished in Kurland and at Danzig can be well praised by its last commander, my friend, Hans Christern. I am grateful to all of you that you were filled with the same professional attitude at the very end that you were when you initially moved out in 1939.

What was it then that enabled our newly formed regiment to accomplish such unusual success despite minimal prospects? It was a love of homeland and the spirit of the tanker. It pushed us forward, allowed us to engage in the cunning of war and gave us endurance, even when times were bad, and a toughness towards ourselves and a heartfelt comradeship with others. It was pure German military ethos that had the tankers of the regiment storm forward, surprise the enemy again and again, hit hard, enjoy victory and suffer death.

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