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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Plates
Introduction
A Note to the Reader
German Ranks and Their Equivalents
Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in Text and Notes
Chapter 1: Stemming the Flood: Preparing to Defend the Reich, August to November 1944
Goebbels Scrapes the Barrel
Message from Field Marshal Model
The Siegfried Line
Orders to Hold the Scheldt Estuary
October 1944: Field Marshal Model Exhorts
Creation of the Volkssturm, October 1944
Goebbels Sums Up the General Situation, 27 October 1944
Order of the Day by Field Marshal Walter Model, 9 November 1944
The Goebbels Grenadiers
The High Command Discusses Surrender
Major Eberhard Furst von Urach
Chapter 2: Practical and Impractical Measures for Improving Morale on the Western Front
‘Führer Words’ and Battle Songs
To the Last – Well Almost
Behaviour of Officers
Festung Walcheren
Battle Creed of 2nd Parachute Division
Special Awards for Snipers
Analysis of Mail
A Propaganda Company Officer Reports on Morale on the Western Front
Hunger at Dunkirk
Chapter 3: The Individual Soldier’s Experience: Diaries, Letters, Reports and Memoirs
Extracts from the Diary of a German Officer captured by Belgian Partisans
Experience of an Officer of the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen, June–November 1944
Calais Calling
A German Account of the Arnhem Battle, September 1944
Life on Walcheren in the Autumn of 1944
The Thinking Sergeant
Morale of Pilots
Chapter 4: The Home Front
War Comes to a German Family
Diary of a Nazi Girl
A Race-conscious Nazified Girl
Roetgen – Six Weeks after US Occupation
Chapter 5: Formation and Unit Organization and History
Organization of the 107th Tank Brigade, September 1944
Report on Status of Parachute Divisions Encountered in France
Hermann Goering Reserve and Training Regiment
Organization and History of the Flying Bomb Regiment
History of the 279 Magen (Stomach) Battalion
In Memoriam: 3rd Parachute Division
Chapter 6: Tank and Anti-Tank Weapons and Tactics
Tactics of German Assault Gun Brigades
Assault Gun Tactics
German Tiger Tank Tactics
German Battlefield Recovery of Armoured Vehicles
Use of the 88mm Pak 43 Anti-Tank Gun
Using the Panzerfaust as a Flying Mine
Chapter 7: Infantry Tactics and Weapons
Defensive Position of 858th Grenadier Regiment
Employment of Company and Battalion Reserves
A German Regimental Commander’s Critique, 91st Light Infantry Division
German Night Fighting Tactics
Enemy Sniping Methods
Chapter 8: Recruiting, Replacements and Training
Manpower in the German Army
The Formation of New German Divisions
Reinforcement Situation in Italy, Autumn 1944
The Sad Story of Battle Group Gobel
Recruiting and Training of Officers in the German Army
Training of Officer Candidates
German Recruiting Methods 1944
Chapter 9: Problems: Desertion, Discipline, Transport and Food
Desertion in the German Army
Discipline in 606 Division
German Courts-Martial
The Supply Transport of a German Division
German Rations and Messing
German Army Rations
Chapter 10: Propaganda
The Watch on the Rhine
Skorpion Tells All
German Counter-Propaganda Measures
The Power of the Written Word
Don’t Listen, Friends – It’s Treason
Chapter 11: German Assessments of Allied Troops
German Intelligence Notes on the Arnhem Operation
The German High Command Discusses the American Soldier
What Germans Think of American Soldiers
Enemy Interrogation Report of a Talkative Allied Soldier
What the Enemy Thinks of Americans
Chapter 12: In Enemy Hands: The Experience of Allied and German Prisoners of War
German Interrogation Methods
Interrogation at Aachen
The Pride of the Wehrmacht
Chapter 13: Humour (Such as it Was)
Sieg Heil by Numbers
Let the People Speak – Quick, Herman, the Scissors
Martinets on the Italian Front
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