Chapter 11- Chief of the General Staff Summary and Analysis

Meanwhile, the Russian breakthrough against the North Ukraine front is approaching Warsaw by July 1944. German Reserves are brought up from Rumania and by September they are able to re-establish the land connection to the German Army Group North. Hitler refuses to withdraw forces in Courland, and these forces are cut off by land again in October. The Poles in Warsaw revolt and are defeated with out-of-control brutality by Oct. 2nd. Guderian demands that a German unit composed of Russian POWs and a German convict unit be removed from the Eastern Front. Russian attempts to storm Warsaw are defeated along the Vistula River, and Guderian disputes claims that the Russians deliberately slowed their advance on Warsaw to relieve the pro-Western revolt there. Guderian organizes Hitler Youth, women and the elderly...