Summary of Leo Barron's Patton at the Battle of the Bulge

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#1 Death was never far from the mind of Colonel Rudolph-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, as he was constantly on the run from the Gestapo. He had tried to kill Hitler on March 21, 1943, and was now en route to a meeting at Army Group B Headquarters.

#2 Colonel Rudolph von Gersdorff was a conspirator against Hitler. He was born in 1905 in the town of Lubin, Silesia. He attended the War Academy in Berlin to become a general staff officer, and when the war broke out in 1939, he was a captain on the staff of the Fourteenth Army.

#3 On July 27, 1944, he became the chief of staff for the Seventh Army. It was not an auspicious start. The U. S. Army’s Operation Cobra had begun only two days earlier, and it was the breakout the German army’s High Command had feared since D-day.

#4 The German war potential allows them to form an offensive force by rehabilitating and completely reconstituting the twelve panzer and panzergrenadier divisions at present employed on the Western Front, as well as some twenty volksgrenadier divisions and two airborne divisions. The most important factor will be surprise and speed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822501621

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Insights on Leo Barron's Patton at the Battle of the Bulge

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Death was never far from the mind of Colonel Rudolph-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, as he was constantly on the run from the Gestapo. He had tried to kill Hitler on March 21, 1943, and was now en route to a meeting at Army Group B Headquarters.

#2

Colonel Rudolph von Gersdorff was a conspirator against Hitler. He was born in 1905 in the town of Lubin, Silesia. He attended the War Academy in Berlin to become a general staff officer, and when the war broke out in 1939, he was a captain on the staff of the Fourteenth Army.

#3

On July 27, 1944, he became the chief of staff for the Seventh Army. It was not an auspicious start. The U. S. Army’s Operation Cobra had begun only two days earlier, and it was the breakout the German army’s High Command had feared since D-day.

#4

The German war potential allows them to form an offensive force by rehabilitating and completely reconstituting the twelve panzer and panzergrenadier divisions at present employed on the Western Front, as well as some twenty volksgrenadier divisions and two airborne divisions. The most important factor will be surprise and speed.

#5

The American First Army was hitting hard the area around Aachen, and General George S. Patton’s Third Army was racing across France and into the retreating Army Group G in the Moselle region. The Allies had focused their combat power in those two sectors, leaving a huge gap in the Ardennes region.

#6

The German High Command had made a huge assumption about American intentions. They believed that the Americans would react to the German surprise attack by massing their combat power to prevent a German assault across the Meuse River.

#7

The town of Bad Münstereifel provided a fitting backdrop for the staff exercise. It was typical of the Rhineland town, with half-timber-framed homes and a stone wall built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

#8

The Seventh Army was led by General Brandenberger, who had brought his three corps commanders with him. The first was Dr. Franz Beyer, commander of the LXXX Army Corps. Next to him was General Baptist Knieß, the commander of the LXXXV Army Corps. Knieß was a stocky man who looked more like a fat German baker than a German general.

#9

The 4 volksgrenadier divisions controlled by two corps would lead the attack. The LXXXV Infantry Corps would be on the right, and the LXXX Infantry Corps on the left. They would attack abreast in the sector between the towns of Vianden,