Yes I've seen Heinricis opinions. When I read the specifics given by the local commanders at the divsion (Raus) or battery (Sigfried Knappe or Werner Adamczyk) and others one universal thread runs through their accounts. Supplies were short or nonexistant. At the battery level both Adamczyk & Knappe describe firing missions from ammo directly off the supply trucks or wagons and inconsequential ammounts in the battery load from early November. Knappe remarked on the good fortune of his divsion (87th Infantry) to be operating close to the main railroad servicing Army Group Center. Unlike the infantry further away his divsion recived partial rations from the railhead and did little foraging for food.

Raus in his account ascribes the inability of his Pz Divsion to make the final advance to Lenningrad directly to a lack of (in no particularl order) fuel, spare parts, ammuniiton, tank losses and infantry casualties in the motorized rifle battalions. These crippling shortages begain occuring in October and November, before the cold weather started.

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