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Old May 13th, 2008, 01:06 PM
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Default Re: Armor in Berlin

Erich- any chance you've got a title for that first one? If it's photo-heavy and available, that might be worthwhile despite my lack of any German.

I have seen the After the Battle book listed before, but never seen it in person. Sounds like a good one, although sounded more like the focus was on Berlin itself, as opposed to the fighting.

Still in the process of flipping through all the old books and whatnot... and I did review the bits at the end of Tigers in Combat II, I believe on the 503rd and Feldernhalle Heavy Panzer usits, both of whom apparently had Tigers in Berlin (same unit? This was only a brief once-over, still reading other stuff).
A couple nice shots of Tigers at the end- the abandoned Tiger I in front of the Brandenburg gate and an abandoned Tiger II on a city street.

Also quickly read over some of the accounts of Berlin in Fey's Armored Battles of the Waffen SS, and he well describes the absolute chaos that took place in the Battle for Berlin. From memory (no book at work), His book contains two accounts if I recall about a couple Tiger IIs fighting then heading an escape attempt which involved some other armored units. Believe there were a couple StuGs involved?

Seems though that at best one would be able to come up with unit designations and armored inventories around the start of the battle... as it progressed, chaos probably took place of much organization and tracking of the specific armored vehicles and where they were.
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