The Last Panther - Slaughter of the Reich - The Halbe Kessel 1945, by Wolfgang Faust
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While the Battle of Berlin in 1945 is widely known, the horrific story of the Halbe Kessel remains largely untold. In April 1945, victorious Soviet forces encircled 80,000 men of the German 9th Army in the Halbe area, South of Berlin, together with many thousands of German women and children. The German troops, desperate to avoid Soviet capture, battled furiously to break out towards the West, where they could surrender to the comparative safety of the Americans. For the German civilians trapped in the Kessel, the quest to escape took on frantic dimensions, as the terror of Red Army brutality spread. The small town of Halbe became the eye of the hurricane for the breakout, as King Tigers of the SS Panzer Corps led the spearhead to the West, supported by Panthers of the battle-hardened 21st Panzer Division. Panzer by panzer, unit by unit, the breakout forces were cut down – until only a handful of Panthers, other armour, battered infantry units and columns of shattered refugees made a final escape through the rings of fire to the American lines. This first-hand account by the commander of one of those Panther tanks relates with devastating clarity the conditions inside the Kessel, the ferocity of the breakout attempt through Halbe, and the subsequent running battles between overwhelming Soviet forces and the exhausted Reich troops, who were using their last reserves of fuel, ammunition, strength and hope. Eloquent German-perspective accounts of World War 2 are surprisingly rare, and the recent reissue of Wolfgang Faust’s 1948 memoir ‘Tiger Tracks’ has fascinated readers around the world with its insight into the Eastern Front. In ‘The Last Panther,’ Faust used his unique knowledge of tank warfare to describe the final collapse of the Third Reich and the murderous combat between the German and Russian armies. He gives us a shocking testament to the cataclysmic final hours of the Reich, and the horrors of this last eruption of violence among the idyllic forests and meadows of Germany.
The Last Panther - Slaughter of the Reich - The Halbe Kessel 1945, by Wolfgang Faust- Amazon Sales Rank: #1850 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-20
- Released on: 2015-05-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author The rarely-heard voice of a World War 2 panzer crewman, now in a modern English translation.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful. so reader discretion is highly recommended. By Roadstar05 Hard-hitting, graphic, and fast moving...those adjectives sum up Faust's highly descriptive account of his experiences during the Halbe pocket breakout. This operation involved the frantic attempt of German troops and civilians to escape the clutches of the Soviets as the noose tightened around them near Berlin in 1945. Faust's role as a Panther commander is described in graphic detail and builds upon his previous experiences as a driver of a Tiger tank on the Eastern Front earlier in the war. (Read "Tiger Tracks") Faust's accounts puts the reader right into the turret of a deadly Panther tank as it confronts overwhelming Soviet infantry, armor, and air power hell-bent on capturing and annihilating all German forces within their grasp as the war ended east of the Elbe river. The ruthlessness of the combat by both sides is not for the faint hearted, so reader discretion is highly recommended.
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful. As good as Tiger Tracks By Driscoll Dee Faust only ever wrote 2 books, and I'm glad I've had the chance to read them both. The 'Tiger' book was a pretty shocking account of tank conflict on the Eastern Front. 'Last Panther' relates how Faust fought his way out of the Russian occupied part of Germany in April 1945 in a Panther with a battlegroup of Tiger 2s, Hetzers and other tanks plus all manner of infantry sustained by amphetamines, morphine and booze. The account it gives of the collapse of German discipline, organisation, morale and fighting spirit in the final days of WW2 is like nothing I've read before. I've read a lot of 'hints' about these conditions in German accounts, but nobody tells it as graphically as this guy.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Incredible firsthand account By Julian A. Pirano Being a military man myself and really enjoying these types of work; "The Last Panther" was gripping, suspenseful, and raw. The book centers around a Feldwebel (comparatively same rank as I was, a Sergeant) attempting to keep he and his crew alive through impossible, nightmarish odds, in one of the last functioning Panther tanks of the Third Reich. He and his tank are in a race against time and the Russian war machine to escape west, to avoid the certain doom of Russian capture to find relative safety in American capture. The language that the author uses is both gripping and descriptive. You are left to imagine the absolute carnage that is unfolding on the tired, weary and battle worn combatants and the civilians that follow them, as the Russians close in behind them. The feeling of impending doom and suspense is palatable, every page is a shock at the in-humanity these people faced between constant shelling, harrying by enemy aircraft, and other means of destruction.Small things in the piece, like the way the author described facing the new Josef Stalin type heavy tanks that could fight and kill German King Tigers, was absolutely gripping. Too often we only hear the History Channel emeblishment of the Tiger tank series-- whilst absolutely a marvel of battlefield strength, it was not the quantum shift if armored warfare that we sometimes believe. It was interesting to hear the German tankers thoughts on things like why he thought those said Josef Stalin tanks reloaded so slowly; his hypthosesis was that they gun used a two part charge and projectile system (like a battleship). I know that he was spot on from hindsight in 2015, but it's astonishing to hear his deduction from 1945 as he faced down the gun.It's important that the world not turn a blind eye to works like these, lest we lose entirely the first hand account of what actually took place here. Too often we are left with the Hollywood image of these battles, which is an absolute mockery of what these people actually endured. One passage that really stuck with me is when the author described his retreating element coming into contact with a group of 3 Russian T-34 tanks that were dug in to defend against German retreats such as this. The battle unfolds in great detail as the author describes the tension and stress of having his gunner engage targets that are also engaging him. At one point in this battle, 2 of the three T-34s are destroyed and one final Russian tank remains. The Russian tank emerges from his defensive position, in a gallant attempt to ram tanks in the german element, knowing that they are ultimately doomed. The author describes this tank commanders action as heroic and even goes as far as to elude to the fact that this "Hero of the Soviet Union" and his actions, while incredibly valiant, were ultimately in vain and would most likely would never be recorded or remembered.It is through works like this, that we can respect, admire and never forget true courage and true determination. It is my hope that my review here influences somebody to purchase this book and pay omage to this incredible human history. If just one person does so, this will have been a success.
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