Without artillery support, - colonel Chekel has noticed, - we here for a long time shall not hold on. Some tanks are necessary for us even.

Pauljus has decided to organize forward command point of army between Don and Volga to provide a reliable and continuous control of troops. Chiefs of operative and prospecting departments and one quartermaster with corresponding officers of connection and transport there should lie. This command point has been solved to arrange to the west of Gumrak, near to station.After me to Schmidt there has arrived the commander army. Has rung out phone. From Osinovka reported the commander of XI Korp Shtreker. On 9 December 1942, the 7th Luftwaffe Field Division moved into position on the left (northwest) flank of the 336th Infantry Division, strengthening the front at the beginning of the difficult days from 9-17 December 1942. On the evening of 11 December 1942, elements of the 5th Tank Army, driven hard by its competent but stiff and unimaginative commander, General Romanenko, simultaneously broke through the left flank of the 336th Infantry Division at Nizhne Kalinovski and its center 15 miles southeast at Lissinski. For maintenance of your left flank I am going a 14-n Panzer Division to commission a southwest from Melo-Kletskaya. About the further you find out, when the direction of the main impact of the opponent will be found out. skill to filter through positions of the opponent, and as aspiration to grasp and keep bridgeheads as bases of the future approaches Is marked.- Yuri> The basic precondition of successful direction of troops - a correct estimation of the opponent. The Supreme command has broken this principle in the most irresponsible image. What, in effect it was possible to undertake now when the army actually is in an encirclement? Only one - to break on a southwest. For now it is necessary to keep bridgehead above Don to the east of Nizhne-Chirskaja.

Here the most typical applications of the German generals, former commanders of German 48th Panzer Korp which tank divisions operated during the period battle of Stalingrad on the river Chir are given. With no combat experience in the Soviet Union whatsoever, he nevertheless proved to be a tower of steadiness and decisiveness in the Chir River battles. Lieutenant General Hans Cramer arrived at Petrovka on 30 November 1942 to be temporary commander of the panzer corps. Several days later on 4 December 1942, Panzer General Otto von Knobelsdorff arrived as permanent commander at Nishne Chirskaya at the confluence of the Chir and Don where the headquarters of 48th Panzer Corps had moved on the same day. Knobelsdorff was a flexible and broad minded man, well suited to meet the rapidly shifting crises in the salient. [19] On it the consent provided that one of the division commanders freed in the boiler will be appointed by my receiver has been given. Commanding army has agreed.

Death and burial ground of Balck, Georg Otto Hermann.

I arrived at the command post of the XLVIII Panzer Corps in NIZHNYAYA CHIRSKAYA at approximately 1500 on 5 December 1942 having left the XXIV Panzer Corps. I immediately assumed command of the XLVIII Panzer Corps, taking over from Lieutenant General Kramer. The Corps Chief of Staff was a certain Lieutenant Colonel von Mellenthin, G.S.C., who himself had joined the Corps a few days before. Being in American to a captivity, the description of battle for Sovkhoz «Red Star» was given by the von Mellentin's chief – the commander 48th Panzer Korp general-leitenant von Knobelsdorff. The commander of German forces in Budapest was SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, 56, who previously had com-

The Germans, now being reorganized under Field Marschal Erich von Manstein in the newly established Army Group Don (21 November 1942), immediately recognized the importance of the positions on the lower Chir River. By 27 November 1942, those positions lay closer to the 6th Army than any other German territory on the eastern front. They were also up against the right (north) bank of the Don and critically located to support a drive to relieve Stalingrad from along the left (south) bank of the Don. Po zotavení byl zařazen k 22. záložnímu praporu myslivců ( Reserve-Jäger-Battalion Nr. 22 ) a s jednotkou byl následně odvelen na východní frontu a zúčastnil se bojů poblíž města Lvov. Ovšem ke konci června téhož roku byl opět raněn a to tentokrát do pravého ramene. Zranění nebylo tak vážné a tak se z něj zotavoval u záložního praporu od svého domovského 10. praporu myslivců. I have felt all weight of the responsibility for covered in city of the exhausted soldiers, for the weapon and equipment. The responsibility for appeared under heavy threat 6-n Armies. Berger, Florian (1999) (in German). Mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern. Die höchstdekorierten Soldaten des Zweiten Weltkrieges [With Oak Leaves and Swords. The Highest Decorated Soldiers of the Second World War]. Vienna, Austria: Selbstverlag Florian Berger. ISBN 978-3-9501307-0-6. In Operation Uranus, the Soviet high command exploited the untenable position of the German 6th Army by gripping it with several Soviet armies and simultaneously massing additional armies tailored to effect the first really successful Soviet operational advances of World War II -- the double envelopment of the Germans at Stalingrad.Here the army headquarters commanding is arranged by artillery of army. The general here is not present, so, the army headquarters can proceed with its full complement to Abraham. I can dispose accordingly? At this point and at the very moment the 7th Air Force Infantry Division [Luftwaffenfeld Division] was about to be committed. The division had been activated recently and had just been attached to the Corps. The officers and men of this division were completely unseasoned. They had been performing duties with a variety of air force ground elements. Their infantry combat training was utterly inadequate. These men had never been in combat before. The division artillery had received training in antiaircraft firing only. Most of the officers had never even heard of such a thing as weapons and firepower coordination.