Hello,
I am working with Russian archive documents to establish participation of their units and losses. These battles were fought around Isjum in the second half of July 1943 and early August.
The first engagements took place near villages such as Sawodskoje, Ssrednij and Andrejewka SW of Isjum.
Later the fighting took place around Golaja Dolina.
So far I have come across some very interesting information. To my knowledge no western historians have been able to use these documents as they were classified until 2006/2007. These are documents from Central Archive of Russian Ministry of Defense.
Let me just say that for example claims by battalion Narwa regarding destroyed tanks seem to be quite true. Previously the large number of destroyed tanks gave ground to some doubts.
I have found combat reports of several units of corps, division and brigade level who describe their fight against Wiking and their losses.
Also several schemes/maps. In addition also specific lists of fallen Red Army soldiers with names.
I hope one day all this information might be available to you all in a book.
For this I need a fair level of detail from both sides and so far I have very little details from German side in my opinion.
I've checked what books are available to me but perhaps someone can help me by pointing out or providing some other, possibly more detailed accounts.
The books I have read and which contain some useful details:
The history of Battalion Narwa. Contains accounts of several combatants and maps.
Jean Mabire "SS Tank division Wiking". A few pages of good information mainly about Germania regiment's actions.
Ewald Klapdor "Viking Panzers". Some specifics.
A lot of books concerning Waffen SS or Wiking in general are TOO general or contain no useful specific details. But I must confess I have only read a couple others.
I have not had a pleasure of reading Rolf Michaelis book about Wiking for example.
I do know archive documents of Wiking combat records are unavailable or destroyed so I'm not asking for these.
I'm interested in memoirs. For example Mabire mentions a certain Hauptsturmführer who brought word to Dickeman of unsuccessful attempt to reach and aid bat. Narwa during the night. It is said he had a diary/journal. Any idea who it is and is it published somewhere?
Also Paul Hausser wrote his perspective of these battles in his memoirs.
If anyone has anything which might be of help to my research in their shelves please help me out.
Best regards,
Toivo
I am working with Russian archive documents to establish participation of their units and losses. These battles were fought around Isjum in the second half of July 1943 and early August.
The first engagements took place near villages such as Sawodskoje, Ssrednij and Andrejewka SW of Isjum.
Later the fighting took place around Golaja Dolina.
So far I have come across some very interesting information. To my knowledge no western historians have been able to use these documents as they were classified until 2006/2007. These are documents from Central Archive of Russian Ministry of Defense.
Let me just say that for example claims by battalion Narwa regarding destroyed tanks seem to be quite true. Previously the large number of destroyed tanks gave ground to some doubts.
I have found combat reports of several units of corps, division and brigade level who describe their fight against Wiking and their losses.
Also several schemes/maps. In addition also specific lists of fallen Red Army soldiers with names.
I hope one day all this information might be available to you all in a book.
For this I need a fair level of detail from both sides and so far I have very little details from German side in my opinion.
I've checked what books are available to me but perhaps someone can help me by pointing out or providing some other, possibly more detailed accounts.
The books I have read and which contain some useful details:
The history of Battalion Narwa. Contains accounts of several combatants and maps.
Jean Mabire "SS Tank division Wiking". A few pages of good information mainly about Germania regiment's actions.
Ewald Klapdor "Viking Panzers". Some specifics.
A lot of books concerning Waffen SS or Wiking in general are TOO general or contain no useful specific details. But I must confess I have only read a couple others.
I have not had a pleasure of reading Rolf Michaelis book about Wiking for example.
I do know archive documents of Wiking combat records are unavailable or destroyed so I'm not asking for these.
I'm interested in memoirs. For example Mabire mentions a certain Hauptsturmführer who brought word to Dickeman of unsuccessful attempt to reach and aid bat. Narwa during the night. It is said he had a diary/journal. Any idea who it is and is it published somewhere?
Also Paul Hausser wrote his perspective of these battles in his memoirs.
If anyone has anything which might be of help to my research in their shelves please help me out.
Best regards,
Toivo
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