Dokument o činnosti Führer Begleit Brigade v Ardenách

Document on the Activity of Führer Begleit Brigade in Ardennes

Autor: LAMOŠ Róbert

LAMOŠ, Róbert: Dokument o činnosti Führer Begleit Brigade v Ardénach.

LAMOŠ, Róbert: Document on the activity of Führer Begleit Brigade in Ardennes.

Vojenská história, 2, 14, 2010, pp. 99–110.

The presented document from the series ETHINT was discovered by the author when studying materials in the military archive in. It is a copy of the transcription of the dialogue between Otto Remer with an American investigator in English and it approaches Ardennes Offensive in December 1944, as the last German offensive at the west during the WWII. In the introduction the author states that German headquarters used the slump period of the Christmas of 1944 as well as the fact that the region of Ardennes was considered a calm location by the Allies Headquarters. It was the demanding terrain combined with extreme winter conditions, according to the Allies command, that did make Germans disable to lead any possible attacks. Those were the reasons why the region was considered at a low risk of German counter-attack. There was the area where the troops where sent to be reorganized and trained for battles. Almost similarly to the example of Guderian attack from 1940, the German tank troops crossed the weak allies defense and attacked through Ardennes, passing across the Rive Maas and re/conquer the port of Antwerp. They aimed at the cut off of the allies supplies, soldier and material transports. German led the attack to isolate 4 allied armies presuming that it would lead to a disaster at the front and finally to the dialogues on piece.

Key words: Military History. Belgium. WWII. Documentation. Ardennes- December 1944. 

Ročník: 14 | Číslo: 2/2010 | Stránky: 99-110