Consequently the data thus obtained had to be compared and, where Memory, as only a few of the persons questioned are in possession of notes which they Persons who participated in the operation. The only course left to the author was to solicit information from a large number of Was any information found in the later literature of the war which could be considered No documents or other written data were discovered, nor (Editor)]Īccordingly, the author had to find persons from all of the above organizations who Wehrkreis by a deputy corps headquarters. In wartime this headquarters went into the field aid was replaced in the [* - Each Wehrkreis, or basic military area, was under the command of a corps Nazi Party, National Defense Commissioner.Īgencies, responsible for carrying out the defense plans were (1) Deputy Headquarters, III Corps, (2) The Commander of the Berlin Defense Area, (3) Troop units from allīranches of the Wehrmacht, the SS, and the Police, and (4) the Party Organizations. The Army High Command, (3) The Replacement Army, (4) Army Group Vistula, and (5) The This planning entailed collaboration from the most varied authorities: (1) Hitler, (2) Instead, all plans had been dictated directly Itīecame evident almost from the start that no Iong-range, strategic planning forīerlin's defense had ever been conducted. The research In connection with the present topic proved to be unusually difficult. Including leaders of such organizations as the Volkssturm and the Plant Protection Numerous veterans of the fighting, from platoon leaders to regimental commanders, Thilo.įrom Army Group Vistula: Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici, Colonel Eismann.įrom the Replacement Army: Generalmajor Laegeler.įrom Deputy Headquarters, III Corps: Generalleutnant Helmut Friebe, Lieutenant ColonelĬommander of the Berlin Defense Area, Generalleutnant Helmuth Reymann his ArtilleryĬommander, Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Platho.įrom the Wehrmacht Area Headquarters: Major Pritsch, Lieutenant Colonel Karl Stamm.įrom the Luftwaffe: Colonel Gerhardt Trost.įrom Ordnance: Chief Ordnance Technician (Master Sergeant) Schmidt.Īlso consulted were the Police Commander for Berlin, Colonel Krich Duensing, and Trotha, Colonel Bogislaw von Bonin, Colonel Karl W. In addition to the above-listed home workers, the following persons were included:įrom the Army High Command Generalmajor Erich Dethlefsen, General-major Illo von Operations Branch of the Army General Staff.Ĭolonel Gerhard Roos, Jenaer Strasse 9, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, formerly Chief of Staff ofĬolonel Hans-Oscar Woehlermann, Geldernstrasse 48, Koeln-Nippes, formerly Artillery Lieutenant Colonel Ulrich de Maizieres, Argelander Strasse 105, Bonn, formerly in the Their contributions have been compiled by him and are included under his name in the supporting studies. Leader of a circle of contributors consisting of eight former fellow-combatants livingin Berlin. I attach great importance to this study from the standpoint of military history and concur with the military opinions expressed by the author.Ĭolonel Guenther Hartung, Uetzersteig 12 - 14, Berlin-Gatow, Colonel Hartung was the He goes beyond the more narrow concept of planning and offers the first German account of the defense of Berlin to be based upon thorough research. The author describes these conditions in a clear, accurate report which I rate very highly. These reveal a state of total confusion in which the pressure of the enemy, the organizational chaos on the German side, and the catastrophic shortage of human and material resources for the defense combined with disastrous effect. Thus the city's defense was characterized only by a mass of improvisations.
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Circumstances were such that he gave no thought to defending the city until it was much too late for any kind of advance planning.
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All that existed was the stubborn determination of Hitler to defend the capital of the Reich. No cohesive, over-all plan for the defense of Berlin was ever actually prepared. FRANZ HALDERįOREWORD by Generaloberst a.D.