Braunschweig company
| date | June 28 to November 1942 |
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| place | Donets Basin, Caucasus, Kuban Region, Soviet Union |
| output | Strategic German defeat |
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Wilhelm List (Army Group A) |
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Army Group A : 11th Army, 17th Army, 1st Panzer Army, 4th Romanian Army |
South Front Southwest Front Don Front North Caucasian Front Transcaucasus Front |
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1941: Białystok-Minsk - Dubno-Lutsk-Rivne - Smolensk - Uman - Kiev - Odessa - Leningrad blockade - Vyazma-Bryansk - Kharkov - Rostov - Moscow - Tula
1942: Rzhev - Kharkiv - Company Blue - companies Braunschweig - company Edelweiss - Stalingrad - Operation Mars
1943: Voronezh-Kharkov - Operation Iskra - North Caucasus - Kharkov - Citadel Company - Oryol - Donets-Mius - Donbass - Belgorod-Kharkov - Smolensk - Dnepr
1944: Dnepr-Carpathians - Leningrad-Novgorod - Crimea - Vyborg-Petrozavodsk - Operation Bagration - Lviv-Sandomierz - Jassy-Kishinew - Belgrade - Petsamo-Kirkenes - Baltic States - Carpathians - Hungary
1945: Courland - Vistula-Oder - East Prussia - West Carpathians - Lower Silesia - East Pomerania - Lake Balaton - Upper Silesia - Vienna - Oder - Berlin - Prague
Company Braunschweig was the code name for the German summer offensive in the Soviet Union that began on June 28, 1942 . The original name of the company was Fall Blau , but was renamed Company Braunschweig on June 30th . The company led to the German advance into the Caucasus and the lower Volga and was thus the starting point for the later Battle of Stalingrad .
Planning and Follow
The entire company, which had previously been run as the Blau case, was managed under the code name Braunschweig from June 30, 1942 , the follow-up planning under the names Blau II and Blau III was given the code names Enterprise Clausewitz and Enterprise Dampfhammer . Clausewitz included joining Army Group A in July 1942, and Dampfhammer the successor company in July 1942.
In Directive No. 45 of July 23, 1942, Adolf Hitler changed the aims of the original Blau case. The goal was now the simultaneous advance of the German troops both in the direction of the Caucasus ( Edelweiss company ) and Stalingrad ( Heron company ).
Hitler had personally intervened in the planning of the company and ordered a division of Army Group South . This fragmentation of forces, against which Hitler had been warned several times by his generals, is now generally regarded as the main cause of the downfall of the 6th Army in Stalingrad. For his insistence, Hitler asserted economic reasons (conquering and utilizing the Caucasian oil wells, cutting off Soviet goods transport via the Stalingrad traffic junction ).
Company history
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schramm, 1942, Part 2, p. 60.
- ↑ Schramm, 1942, Part 1, p. 460.
- ↑ Schramm, 1942, part volume 2, p. 1330.
- ↑ Schramm, 1942, Part 1, p. 520.
- ↑ Schramm, 1942, Part 2, p. 1420.
literature
- Walter Hubatsch: Hitler's instructions for warfare 1939–1945. Documents of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. Ed. Dörfler, Utting 2000, ISBN 3-89555-173-2 .
- Andreas Hillgruber , Walter Hubatsch, Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, Percy Ernst Schramm : Diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht 1940–1945. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn, ISBN 3-7637-5933-6 .