Before completing the description of battles on the river Chir, I should give due to general Balk, the born commander - tankman. <…> His remarkable successes were result of a full co-ordination of operations with two infantry divisions and an army headquarters of 48th Panzer Corps. <…> Flexible such tactics many times allowed to correct an emergency and to render huge losses to the opponent. For the specified period in a strip of 48th Panzer Corps it has been destroyed over 700 tanks of the opponent. That day, Hitler awarded Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch the Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross in the hope it would encourage him to hold out in Budapest, where savage fighting continued. The German and Hungarian defenders were by then compressed into little more than a square mile, centered on Buda’s Castle Hill. However, Pfeffer-Wildenbruch at last had had enough and on February 11 defied the Führer by attempting to break out with his 28,000 surviving troops, moving in three waves. The lead echelon achieved some The automobile has delivered me to other day in a department ober-quartirmeister to 6-th Army in Morozovskaja. Here the army headquarters of Romanian 3-rd Army to which my battle group last days has been subordinated has been placed. When I have reported on the arrival, commanding, general - colonel Dumitresku, has invited me to a dinner. There I have met alongside with the Romanian chief of an army headquarters and the German chief of an army headquarters of the colonel Wenk. I have have found out from him, that to the north of Morozovskaja all front has come to movement. To reinforcements which we have thrown, hardly it is possible to close the formed gaps....

After me to Schmidt there has arrived the commander army. Has rung out phone. From Osinovka reported the commander of XI Korp Shtreker. On the river Chir (in the beginning in region Petrovka, and then in region the sovkhoz 79) von Mellenthin for the first time has seen, how the Red Army is at war. The impressions from these unforgettable meetings with Russian on a battlefield von Mellenthin has told at the end of the chapter "And Quiet Flows the Don", in the special paragraph "The First impressions about tactics Russian ". In the early morning at Golubinskaja there has arrived the general of Hube, the commander of XIV Panzer Korp with the army headquarters. He has reported, that tank parts of 16-th and 24-th Pazer Divisions are taken off from front and in second half of day or will leave to Don in the evening. This news has installed in all of us vivacity. To Hube concerned in an army headquarters with the big respect. In fact he once in August has made the way with 16-th Panzer Division through enemy front from Don to Volga. Certainly, I knew, that tanks have had in battles for city the big losses. But, as if drowning grasping at a strow, I assigned big my hopes for Hube.

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V srpnu roku 1914 vojenskou školu úspěšně dokončil a vrátil se zpět ke svému domovskému 10. praporu myslivců jako nově povýšený poručík ( Leutnant). Zároveň byl jmenován do funkce velitele čety u své 2. roty. Ve funkci velitele čety však nezůstal dlouho, neboť necelý týden po jmenování do funkce byl jmenován dočasným pobočníkem velitele praporu.

At the end of December the colonel Selle has arrived to the boiler. Perplexed we have shaken each other hands. Then I have have carried out him to a dugout commanding.

Here the real hell, - informed Shtreker, - unimaginable storm fire has fallen upon our positions. The Earth is literally ploughed up. At us significant losses. However the basic impact, probably, is put on Romanians. I have communicated on phone with the left neighbour, Romanian IV Army Korp. His chief of a staff is adjusted rather pessimistically. He is afraid of a panic in the armies. Our divisions keep firmly, but because of a blizzard very bad visibility. We shall report command on a course has put. On November, 19 staff officers of army have have carried out in painful expectation. Then with each hour messages on accident more and more became frequent. Though by the evening yet had no exact representation about scales of the Soviet successes, but it was clear to everyone, that we are threatened with danger of death. About 19 hours I was with the report to Pauljus. Nevertheless, memoirs of colonel Adama are very useful, they enable to see the common picture of the events happened at the end of November and the beginning of December, 1942 in region of state farm 79. Diamonds on 31 August 1944 as General der Panzertruppe and acting commander of the 4. Panzerarmee [14] in German) Die Wehrmachtberichte 1939–1945 Band 1, 1. September 1939 bis 31. Dezember 1941 [The Wehrmacht Reports 1939–1945 Volume 1, 1 September 1939 to 31 December 1941]. München, Germany: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG. 1985. ISBN 978-3-423-05944-2.