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van Creveld, Supplying War , p. 165; von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , pp. 38–39, 41.
24. Boog et al., Germany and the Second World War , Vol. IV, pp. 617, 788; Messe, Der Krieg im Osten , pp. 129–30, 133, 135, 137.
25. Boog et al., Germany and the Second World War , Vol. IV, pp. 617–19; van Creveld, Supplying War , p. 165; Werthen, Geschichte der 16. Panzer Division , p. 74. The Motorized Brigade, later expanded to a division, was the one combat-worthy formation contributed by Slovakia.
26. Bergstrom and Mikhailov, Black Cross, Red Star , p. 241; Germany and the Second World War , p. 884; Erickson, Road to Stalingrad , p. 265; Werner Haupt, Army Group Center: The Wehrmacht in Russia, 1941–1945 , Schiffer Military History, 1997, p. 102; Joel Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad: Luftwaffe and Hitler’s Defeat in the East 1942–1943 , University of Kansas, 1998, p. 54; von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , p. 42; Charles Messenger, Hitler’s Gladiator: The Life and Wars of Panzer Army Commander Sepp Dietrich , Brassey’s, 1988, p. 104.
27. Boog et al., Germany and the Second World War , Vol. IV, p. 61; Clark, Barbarossa , p. 178; John Ellis, Brute Force , Viking, 1990, p. 59; Erickson, Road to Stalingrad , p. 265; von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , p. 46; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , p. 54.
28. Boog et al., Germany and the Second World War , Vol. IV, pp. 622–26, 789; Ellis, Brute Force , p. 65; Erickson, Road to Stalingrad , p. 265; Görlitz, Paulus and Stalingrad , p. 44; Messenger, Hitler’s Gladiator , p. 105; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 54–57. For a different view of the Poltava meeting between Hitler and von Rundstedt, see John Toland, Adolf Hitler , Vol. II, Doubleday, 1976, p. 789.
29. Breymeyer, Das Wiesel , p. 164.
30. Ibid., p. 183; Hans Neidhardt, Mit Tanne und Eichenlaub , Stocker, 1981, pp. 152, 164. Light divisions were redesignated Jäger divisions on 1 April 1942, Neidhardt, Mit Tanne und Eichenlaub , p. 168.
31. Fedor von Bock, The War Diary, 1939–1945 , Schiffer Military History, 1996, entries for most of February; Neidhardt, Mit Tanne und Eichenlaub , p. 156; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 156, 159. As mentioned above, von Reichenau took command of Army Group South on 2 December. He suffered a stroke during lunch on 16 January, and died the next day. Von Bock was recalled from medical leave and reported to Hitler at Rastenburg on 17 January.
32. Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 288–89.
33. Anthony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 , Viking, 1998, p. 65; Erickson, Road to Stalingrad , pp. 345–46; Haupt, Army Group South , pp. 139, 143; von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , p. 71; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 273, 276, 278–82.
34. Von Bock, The War Diary , 23 and 24 June 1942; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , p. 318. Armeegruppe von Kleist was disbanded on 8 June as part ofthe reorganization prior to Blau. (Since Operation Wilhelm was conducted by Sixth Army, it is not covered in detail here.)
35. Citino, The Death of the Wehrmacht , p. 174. Due to a security breach, on 30 June Blau I, II and III were all renamed, but for simplicity’s sake the original names will continue to be used here. Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , p. 336.
36. Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , p. 346.
37. Von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , p. 86; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 347–48. Maximillian Freiherr von Weichs took over Army Group B after von Bock, while Hitler henceforth personally controlled both A and B.
38. Citino, The Death of the Wehrmacht , p. 177; Erickson, Road to Stalingrad , p. 362; Glantz and House, When Titans Clashed , p. 120; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad , pp. 34–51.
39. Erickson, Road to Stalingrad , p. 370; Haupt, Army Group South , p. 180; von Mackensen, Vom Bug bis zum Kaukasus , p. 89; Ziemke and Bauer, Moscow to Stalingrad ,