Panzer Lehr Division
Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein
130th Panzer-Regiment; 901st and 902nd Panzergrenadier-Regiments
130th Artillery Regiment; 130th Reconnaissance Battalion
130th Anti-Tank Battalion; 130th Engineer Battalion; 311th Flak Battalion
559th Anti-Tank Battalion (attached); 243rd Assault Gun Brigade (attached)
26th Volksgrenadier-Division
Generalmajor Heinz Kokott
39th Fusilier Regiment; 77th and 78th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 26th Artillery Regiment;
26th Reconnaissance Battalion; 26th Anti-Tank Battalion; 26th Engineer Battalion
Führer Begleit Brigade
Oberst Otto Remer
102nd Panzer Battalion; 100th Panzergrenadier-Regiment; 120th Artillery Regiment
120th Reconnaissance Battalion; 120th Anti-Tank Battalion; 120th Engineer Battalion
828th Grenadier Battalion; 673rd Flak-Regiment
LXVI Corps
General der Artillerie Walter Lucht
16th Volkswerfer-Brigade (86th and 87th Werfer-Regiments)
244th Assault Gun Brigade; 460th Heavy Artillery Battalion
18th Volksgrenadier-Division
Oberst Günther Hoffmann-Schönborn
293rd, 294th and 295th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 1818th Artillery Regiment
1818th Anti-Tank Battalion; 1818th Engineer Battalion
62nd Volksgrenadier-Division
Oberst Friedrich Kittel
164th, 190th and 193rd Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 162nd Artillery Regiment
162nd Anti-Tank Battalion; 162nd Engineer Battalion
LVIII Panzer Corps
General der Panzertruppe Walter Krüger
401st Volksartillerie Corps; 7th Volkswerfer-Brigade (84th and 85th Werfer-Regiments)
1st Flak-Regiment
116th Panzer-Division
Generalmajor Siegfried von Waldenburg
16th Panzer-Regiment; 60th and 156th Panzergrenadier-Regiments
146th Artillery Regiment; 146th Reconnaissance Battalion; 226th Anti-Tank Battalion
675th Engineer Battalion; 281st Flak Battalion
560th Volksgrenadier-Division
Oberst Rudolf Langhauser
1128th, 1129th and 1130th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 1560th Artillery Regiment
1560th Anti-Tank Battalion; 1560th Engineer Battalion
XXXIX Panzer Corps
Generalleutnant Karl Decker
167th Volksgrenadier-Division
Generalleutnant Hans-Kurt Höcker
331st, 339th and 387th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 167th Artillery Regiment
167th Anti-Tank Battalion; 167th Engineer Battalion
Sixth Panzer Army
SS-Oberstgruppenführer Josef Dietrich
506th Heavy Panzer Battalion; 683rd Heavy Anti-Tank Battalion
217th Assault Panzer Battalion; 394th, 667th and 902nd Assault Gun Battalions
741st Anti-Tank Battalion; 1098th, 1110th and 1120th Heavy Howitzer Batteries
428th Heavy Mortar Battery; 2nd Flak-Division (41st and 43rd Regiments)
Kampfgruppe Heydte
I SS Panzer Corps
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Priess
14th, 51st, 53rd and 54th Werfer-Regiments; 501st SS Artillery Battalion
388th Volksartillerie Corps; 402nd Volksartillerie Corps
1st SS Panzer-Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke
1st SS Panzer-Regiment; 1st and 2nd SS Panzergrenadier-Regiments
1st SS Artillery Regiment; 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion; 1st SS Anti-Tank Battalion
1st SS Engineer Battalion; 1st SS Flak Battalion; 501st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion (attached); 84th Luftwaffe Flak Battalion (attached)
3rd Fallschirmjäger-Division
Generalmajor Walther Wadehn
5th, 8th and 9th Fallschirmjäger-Regiments; 3rd Artillery Regiment;
3rd Reconnaissance Battalion; 3rd Anti-Tank Battalion; 3rd Engineer Battalion
12th SS Panzer-Division Hitler Jugend
SS-Standartenführer Hugo Kraas
12th SS Panzer-Regiment; 25th and 26th SS Panzergrenadier-Regiments
12th SS Artillery Regiment; 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion
12th SS Anti-Tank Battalion; 12th SS Engineer Battalion; 12th SS Flak Battalion
560th Heavy Anti-Tank Battalion (attached)
12th Volksgrenadier-Division
Generalmajor Gerhard Engel
27th Fusilier Regiment; 48th and 89th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 12th Fusilier Battalion
12th Artillery Regiment; 12th Anti-Tank Battalion; 12th Engineer Battalion
277th Volksgrenadier-Division
Oberst Wilhelm Viebig
289th, 990th and 991st Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 277th Artillery Regiment
277th Anti-Tank Battalion; 277th Engineer Battalion
150th Panzer-Brigade
SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny
Two Panzer companies; two Panzergrenadier companies; two anti-tank companies
A heavy mortar battalion (two batteries); 600th SS Parachute Battalion Kampfgruppe 200
II SS Panzer Corps
SS-Obergruppenführer Willi Bittrich
410th Volksartillerie Corps; 502nd SS Heavy Artillery Battalion
2nd SS Panzer-Division Das Reich
SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Lammerding
2nd SS Panzer-Regiment; 3rd and 4th SS Panzergrenadier-Regiments; 2nd SS Artillery Regiment; 2nd SS Reconnaissance Battalion; 2nd SS Engineer Battalion; 2nd SS Flak Battalion
9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen
SS-Oberführer Sylvester Stadler
9th SS Panzer-Regiment; 19th and 20th SS Panzergrenadier-Regiments
9th SS Artillery Regiment; 9th SS Reconnaissance Battalion; 9th SS Anti-Tank Battalion
9th SS Engineer Battalion; 9th SS Flak Battalion; 519th Heavy Anti-Tank Battalion (attached)
LXVII Corps
Generalleutnant Otto Hitzfeld
17th Volkswerfer-Brigade (88th and 89th Werfer-Regiments)
405th Volksartillerie Corps; 1001st Heavy Assault Gun Company
3rd Panzergrenadier-Division
Generalmajor Walter Denkert
8th and 29th Panzergrenadier-Regiments; 103rd Panzer Battalion; 3rd Artillery Regiment
103rd Reconnaissance Battalion; 3rd Anti-Tank Battalion; 3rd Engineer Battalion
3rd Flak Battalion
246th Volksgrenadier-Division
Oberst Peter Körte
352nd, 404th and 689th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 246th Artillery Regiment
246th Anti-Tank Battalion; 246th Engineer Battalion
272nd Volksgrenadier-Division
Generalmajor Eugen König
980th, 981st and 982nd Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 272nd Artillery Regiment
272nd Anti-Tank Battalion; 272nd Engineer Battalion
326th Volksgrenadier-Division
751st, 752nd and 753rd Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 326th Artillery Regiment
326th Anti-Tank Battalion; 326th Engineer Battalion
Seventh Army
General der Panzertruppe Erich Brandenberger
657th and 668th Heavy Anti-Tank Battalions; 501st Fortress Anti-Tank Battalion
47th Engineer Battalion; 1092nd, 1093rd, 1124th and 1125th Heavy Howitzer Batteries
660th Heavy Artillery Battery; 1029th, 1039th and 1122nd Heavy Mortar Batteries
999th Penal Battalion; 44th Machine-Gun Battalion; 15th Flak-Regiment
LIII Corps
General der Kavallerie Edwin von Rothkirch
9th Volksgrenadier-Division
Oberst Werner Kolb
36th, 57th and 116th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 9th Artillery Regiment
9th Anti-Tank Battalion; 9th Engineer Battalion
15th Panzergrenadier-Division
Oberst Hans Joachim Deckert
104th and 115th Panzergrenadier-Regime
nts; 115th Panzer Battalion; 115th Artillery Regiment
115th Reconnaissance Battalion; 33rd Anti-Tank Battalion; 33rd Engineer Battalion
33rd Flak Battalion
Führer Grenadier Brigade
Oberst Hans-Joachim Kahler
99th Panzergrenadier-Regiment; 101st Panzer Battalion; 911th Assault Gun Brigade
124th Anti-Tank Battalion; 124th Engineer Battalion; 124th Flak Battalion
124th Artillery Regiment
LXXX Corps
General der Infanterie Franz Beyer
408th Volksartillerie Corps; 8th Volkswerfer-Brigade; 2nd and Lehr Werfer-Regiments
212th Volksgrenadier-Division
Generalmajor Franz Sensfuss
316th, 320th and 423rd Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 212th Artillery Regiment
212th Anti-Tank Battalion; 212th Engineer Battalion
276th Volksgrenadier-Division
Generalmajor Kurt Möhring (later Oberst Hugo Dempwolff)
986th, 987th and 988th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 276th Artillery Regiment;
276th Anti-Tank Battalion; 276th Engineer Battalion
340th Volksgrenadier-Division
Oberst Theodor Tolsdorff
694th, 695th and 696th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 340th Artillery Regiment
340th Anti-Tank Battalion; 340th Engineer Battalion
LXXXV Corps
General der Infanterie Baptist Kniess
406th Volksartillerie Corps; 18th Volkswerfer-Brigade (21st and 22nd Werfer-Regiments)
5th Fallschirmjäger-Division
Generalmajor Ludwig Heilmann
13th, 14th and 15th Fallschirmjäger-Regiments; 5th Artillery Regiment; 5th Reconnaissance Battalion; 5th Engineer Battalion; 5th Flak Battalion; 11th Assault Gun Brigade
352nd Volksgrenadier-Division
Oberst Erich-Otto Schmidt
914th, 915th and 916th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 352nd Artillery Regiment; 352nd Anti-Tank Battalion; 352nd Engineer Battalion
79th Volksgrenadier-Division
Oberst Alois Weber
208th, 212th and 226th Volksgrenadier-Regiments; 179th Artillery Regiment; 179th Anti-Tank Battalion; 179th Engineer Battalion
Notes
ABBREVIATIONS
BA-MA Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg-im-Breisgau
BfZ-SS Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, Sammlung Sterz, Stuttgart
CARL Combined Arms Research Library, Fort Leavenworth, KS
CBHD Chester B. Hansen Diaries, Chester B. Hansen Collection, Box 5, USAMHI
CBMP Charles B. MacDonald Papers, USAMHI
CEOH US Army Corps of Engineers, Office of History, Fort Belvoir, VA
CMH Center of Military History, Fort McNair, Washington, DC
CMH Ardennes Center of Military History, Hugh M. Cole, United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations: The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge, Washington, DC, 1988
CMH Medical Center of Military History, Graham A. Cosmas and Albert E. Cowdrey, United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations: Medical Service in the European Theater of Operations, Washington, DC, 1992
CMH SC Center of Military History, Forrest C. Pogue, United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations: The Supreme Command, Washington, DC, 1954
CSDIC Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre
CSI Combat Studies Institute, Fort Leavenworth, KS
DCD Duff Cooper Diaries (private collection)
DDE Lib Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, KS
DRZW Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweiten Weltkrieg, vols. 6–10, Munich, 2004–8
ETHINT European Theater Historical Interrogations, 1945, OCMH, USAMHI
FCP SC Forrest C. Pogue, background interviews for The Supreme Command, USAMHI
FDRL MR Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY, Map Room documents
FMS Foreign Military Studies, USAMHI
GBP Godfrey Blunden Papers (private collection)
HLB Hitlers Lagebesprechungen: Die Protokollfragmente seiner militärischen Konferenzen 1942–1945, Munich, 1984 (Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz (eds.), Hitler and his Generals: Military Conferences, 1942–1945, London, 2002)
IWM Documents Collection, Imperial War Museum, London
LHC-DP Liddell Hart Centre – Dempsey Papers
LHCMA Liddell Hart Centre of Military Archives, King’s College London
MFF MFF Armed Forces Oral Histories, LHCMA
NARA National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD
OCMH Office of the Chief of Military History, USAMHI
PDDE The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. Alfred D. Chandler, 21 vols., Baltimore, MA, 1970–2001
PP The Patton Papers, ed. Martin Blumenson, New York, 1974
PWS Papers of William Sylvan, OCMH, USAMHI
RWHP Robert W. Hasbrouck Papers, USAMHI
SHD-DAT Service Historique de la Défense, Département de l’Armée de Terre, Vincennes
SOOHP Senior Officers Oral History Program, US Army War College, USAMHI
TBJG Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Fröhlich, 29 vols., Munich, 1992–2005
TNA The National Archives, Kew
USAMHI The United States Army Military History Institute at US Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA
1 VICTORY FEVER
‘It’s Sunday’, Omar N. Bradley, A Soldier’s Story, New York, 1964, 389–90; also Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, New York, 1948, 325
‘informal visit’, NARA 407/427/24235
Gerow and Leclerc; ‘continue on present mission’, SHD-DAT 11 P 218; also NARA 407/427/24235
‘a field of rubble’, BA-MA RH19 IX/7 40, quoted Joachim Ludewig, Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944, Lexington, KY, 2012, 133
‘Pire que les boches’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War: Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian, Lexington, KY, 2001, 214
‘a show of force’, ‘to establish …’, Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, 326; and Bradley, 391
‘From what I heard at SHAEF …’, Arthur Tedder, With Prejudice, London, 1966, 586
28th Division in Paris, see Uzal W. Ent (ed.), The First Century: A History of the 28th Infantry Division, Harrisburg, PA, 1979, 165
‘Une armée de mécanos’, Jean Galtier-Boissière, Mon journal pendant l’Occupation, Paris, 1944, 288
‘It was one of the most …’, 1.2.45, CBHD
‘The August battles …’, CMH SC, 245
‘The West Front is finished …’, diary Oberstleutnant Fritz Fullriede, Hermann Göring Division, 2 September 1944, quoted Robert Kershaw, It Never Snows in September, London, 2008, 63
‘We want peace …’, prisoner-of-war interview, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3616
Wehrmacht losses, Rüdiger Overmans, Deutsche militärische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg, Munich, 2000, 238 and 278
For the German retreat from France see: Ludewig, 108/ff.; and David Wingeate Pike, ‘Oberbefehl West: Armeegruppe G: Les Armées allemandes dans le Midi de la France’, Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporains, Nos. 152, 164, 174, 181
‘You are fish’, Generaloberst Student, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4177
‘a club of intellectuals’, Generaloberst Halder, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/4366 GRGG 332
‘Now I know why …’, Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, London, 1971, 525
‘There will be moments …’, HLB, 466 and 468
‘It is certain that the political conflicts …’, CMH SC, 249
‘In the evening …’, Kreipe diary, 31.8.44, FMS P-069
‘By now a huge …’, Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary, London, 2002, 146
‘an air landing …’, ‘unusual array’, Generalmajor Otto Ernst Remer, Führer Begleit Brigade, FMS B-592
‘typing out whole reams …’, Junge, 144
For German civilian morale, see Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War, London, 2008, 650–3
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sp; ‘a military statesman …’, Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe, London, 1952, 496
‘Ike said that Monty …’, ‘Ike did not thank …’, PP, 533, 537
‘what with champagne …’, Brian Horrocks, Corps Commander, London, 1977, 79
‘The captives sat on the straw …’, Caroline Moorehead, Martha Gellhorn, London, 2003, 269
‘You had barely crossed …’, interrogation, General der Artillerie Walter Warlimont, Deputy Chief of the Wehrmachtführungsstab, CSDIC, TNA WO 208/3151
‘We would let …’, VII Corps, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1459
‘with practically no maintenance’, ibid.
‘We employed …’, VII Corps, ibid.
‘The pace of the retreat …’, Maurice Delvenne, 1.9.44, cited Jean-Michel Delvaux, La Bataille des Ardennes autour de Rochefort, 2 vols., Hubaille, 2004–5, ii, 159–60
‘Their looks are hard …’, ibid.
‘a sad platoon of Dutch …’, Fullriede diary, 13 September 1944, quoted Kershaw, It Never Snows in September, 38
‘a picture that is unworthy …’, BA-MA RH24-89/10, quoted Ludewig, 191
‘the world situation …’, ‘OKW Feldjäger’ etc., Obergefreiter Gogl, Abt. V, Feldjäger Regiment (mot.) 3., OKW Streifendienst, TNA WO 208/3610
‘malingerers and cowardly shirkers …’, BA-MA RW4/vol. 494
‘the only reinforcements …’, NARA RG 498 290/56/2/3, Box 1466
‘as much use to us …’, Stephen Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, London, 1977, 245, quoted Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light, New York, 2013, 233
‘Napoleon, no doubt …’, Horrocks, 81
‘Newspapers reported …’, Pogue, Pogue’s War, 208
2 ANTWERP AND THE GERMAN FRONTIER
Montgomery and Rhine crossing at expense of Scheldt estuary, LHCMA, Alanbrooke 6/2/31
Montgomery to Brooke, 3.9.44; IWM LMD 62/12, Montgomery diary, 3.9.44; see John Buckley, Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, London, 2013, 206