Period of the War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941(London: Frank Cass,
1993), is an anthology with a wealth of detailed unit experiences in the same context.
And a suggestive first-hand shopping list of what went wrong from the German
military perspective comes from the oldPanzerhaseHermann Hoth,Panzer-Opera-
tionen. Die Panzergruppe 3 und das operative Gedanke der Deutschen Fu ̈hrung Sommer
1941 (Heidelberg: Kurt Vowinckel Verlag, 1956), 139ff.
- See particularly the outstanding analysis by Karl-Heinz Frieser, ‘Der Ru ̈ckschlag des
Pendels: das Zuru ̈ckweichen der Ostfront von Sommer 1943 bis Sommer 1944’, inDas
Deutsche Reich in der Zweite Weltkrieg, vol. 8,Die Ostfront 1943/44, ed. K.-H. Frieser
(Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2007), 277.
- The shift is presented and defended by its chief author, Erhard Raus (ed.) and
S. Newton (trans.),Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus,
1941–1945(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003), 274ff.
- Cf. generally Bruno Thoss,Vom Kalten Krieg zur deutschen Einheit. Analysen und
Zeitzeugenberichte zur deutschen Milita ̈rgeschichte, 1945 bis 1995(Munich: Oldenbourg,
1995) and Frank Na ̈gler,Die Bundeswehr 1955–2005. Ru ̈ckblenden-Einsichten-Perspektiven
(Munich: Oldenbourg, 2007).
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