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pp. 355–56.
40. Von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , p. 91; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 358–60. Fourth Panzer Army transferred to Army Group A on 30 July.
41. Citino, The Death of the Wehrmacht , pp. 228, 231–32; Haupt, Army Group South , pp. 183, 187–88; von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , pp. 91–95, Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 362, 364–65. The 14th Panzer did not accompany von Kleist south. On 30 July, Hoth turned over XL Panzer to First Panzer.
42. Citino, The Death of the Wehrmacht , p. 233; Erickson, Road to Stalingrad , pp. 377–78; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 366, 368–71, 373.
43. Citino, The Death of the Wehrmacht , p. 234; von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , pp. 96–97; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 374–75.
44. Von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , pp. 100–1; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , p. 379.
45. Citino, The Death of the Wehrmacht , pp. 242–43; Haupt, Army Group South , p. 201; von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , pp. 103, 105–6; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 453–54; Earl Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East , Barnes & Noble, 1996, p. 17.
46. Haupt, Army Group South , p. 202; von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , p. 110; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , p. 456. Hitler personally took command of Army Group A on 10 September.
47. Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , p. 493. Some portions of Fourth Panzer Army not trapped at Stalingrad would also be destroyed during Saturn, and the down-graded Little Saturn.
48. Paul Carell, Scorched Earth , Harrap, 1970, pp. 142, 148; Davis, von Kleist , p. 15; John Erickson, Road to Berlin , Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983, pp. 28, 30–32; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed , p. 142; Haupt, Army Group South , pp. 240, 242–45; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin , pp. 71, 85.
49. Walter Dunn, Kursk: Hitler’s Gamble, 1943 , Praeger, 1997, p. 97; David Glantz, From the Don to the Dnepr: Soviet Offensive Operations, December 1942 to August 1943 , Frank Cass, 1991, p. 88; George Nipe, Last Victory: The SS Panzercorps and Manstein’s Counter Offensive, February-March 1943 , Schiffer, 2000, p. 76; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin , pp. 86, 91–93. Army Group Don was renamed South.
50. Erickson, Road to Berlin , pp. 51, 53; Glantz, From the Don to the Dnepr , pp.99, 106, 110, 112, 118–19; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin , p. 94. During the swirling armored battles, XXX Corps ably defended First Panzer’s right, Nipe, Last Victory , p. 147. ‘Backhand Blow’ is the name preferred by English speakers for von Manstein’s February-March 1943 counterattack, Germans often use Rochade, their word for the chess term ‘to castle’.
51. Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin , pp. 127–28.
52. Dunn, Kursk , p. 146; Glantz, From the Don to the Dnepr , p. 245; Haupt, Army Group South , p. 282; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin , pp. 137–38.
53. Erickson, Road to Berlin , pp. 119, 124; Haupt, Army Group South , p. 291; Erich von Manstein, Lost Victories , Presidio Press, 1984, p. 457; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin , pp. 160–62, 164–65.
54. Erickson, Road to Berlin , p. 137; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed , p. 171; Haupt, Army Group South , p. 297; Albert Seaton, The Russo-German War , Praeger, 1971, pp. 384–85; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin , pp. 166, 169, 174–78. Breymayer, Die Wiesel , pp. 306–7. The retreating Germans used 500 tons of explosives on the dam, employed 14,000 mines and other obstacles throughout the city and bridgehead, Breymayer, Die Wiesel , p. 309.
55. Erickson, Road to Berlin , p. 138; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin , pp. 181–84.
56. Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed , p. 186; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin , pp. 221–25.
57. Haupt, Army Group South , p. 322; Ziemke, Stalingrad to Berlin , pp. 224–26.
58. Erickson, Road to Berlin , p. 165; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed , p. 187; Haupt,