Vitebsk, the Fight and Destruction of 3rd Panzer Army
Otto Heidkamper, Chief of Staff of Georg-Hans Reinhardt's 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Centre stationed near Smolensk and Vitebsk from early 1942 to June 1944 wrote this valuable first hand account of the defence of Vitebsk through winter 1943 up to the Soviet summer offensive including anti-partisan operations behind German lines. Berndt-Freytag Autokarte of Vitebsk and surrounds, these roads did not exist in 1941, mostly sandy tracks in marshy ground Vitebsk, capital of Whit