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Originally posted by Kai-Petri:
LAST LAURELS. THE GERMAN DEFENCE OF UPPER SILESIA, JANUARY-MAY 1945
Author: Gunter, G.
http://www.helion.co.uk/product.php?...9&xSec=1601119
claims that Germans did not have the men to occupy the defence system which consisted of several belts of defence systems from Poland to the river Oder. Actually the author goes as far as saying that the Russians " had only the ice of the river Oder to fear..."
Actually Hitlerīs logic seems rather weak here : sending men to the western front ( Ardennes ) and Hungary instead of putting them in front of Berlin...The main strike by Red army to the Czech and not Berlin?? No wonder Guderian was quite p****d off.
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I don't believe Hitler had any 'logic' at this stage.
Thinking the allies would sue for peace even if The Bulge was a success...than transfering troops to the East
Thanks for the book titles TA,BTW.
I read how the Russians would sink tanks in rivers and use them as 'invisible' bridges....nothing was going to stop them.
