The Oder Front 1945: Volume 2 - Documents, Reports and Personal Accounts

Describes the planning and execution of the defense of the Oder Front.

Heeresgruppe Weichsel (Vistula) was created on the order of Adolf Hitler in part to "organize the national defense on German soil." Despite the importance of this new command, its operations in the final months of the war prior to the Soviet attack on Berlin have received little historical attention in the west.

Relying on primary documents from Heeresgruppe Weichsel and Oberkommando des Heeres that are reprinted in their...