Gotterdammerung 1945 Germany's Last Stand in the East

In the past, few titles have covered the final battles on the Eastern Front during the months of January through May 1945. Gotterdammerung 1945: Germany’s Last Stand in the East, breaks new ground in this area bringing to light the desperate operations and battles in and around Budapest, East & West Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, and Courland.

Russ Schneider has collected a graphic selection of memoirs from German infantrymen, panzergrenadiers, and panzer commanders and crewmen who participated in these horrific battles of annihilation. He relates the common German soldier’s experiences fighting the Soviets, the attacks by massed Soviet infantry, the never-ending artillery barrages, the endless retreat, life encircled in the trenches, fighting and dying in a panzer, street fighting in Budapest, evacuation by sea, and the reactions to Soviet brutality and reprisals against German soldiers and civilians.

Schneider follows the hard-pressed Wehrmacht as it tried to defend Germany against the overwhelming might of a Red Army bent on victory and revenge.

Russ Schneider
Hardcover with d/w 539pp Eastern Front/Warfield Books 1998 1st Ed

Fine/Near Fine

Gotterdammerung 1945 : Germany's Last Stand in the East