Escape from the Halbe Pocket!

Escape from the Halbe Pocket!

The path of tank officer Joachim Senholdt

Panzer Reconnaissance Department 8 – Panzer Regiment 204 – I./Pz.Rgt. “Brandenburg”

Author: Axel Urbanke
ISBN: 978-3-941437-44-9
Format: 2 4 x 28.5 cm – large format
Pages: 344
Weight: 2.1kg
Photos: 280 photos, 36 of them in color
Cards: 35 color cards

In times of false information of any kind, of course, intentionally altered or completely falsified contemporary reports, diaries and documentation increase drastically. Hardly recognizable to the layman, this is a falsification of history. In the face of such “fake sources” the search for historical treatises based on reliable and verifiable sources becomes increasingly difficult. But of course there are still serious publications.

The extensive original material of the tank soldier Joachim Senholdt was evaluated for the present book. The authentic material was provided by the son and is rare due to its completeness. It is therefore possible within the framework of the documentation to draw a line from the invasion of the Sudetenland at the end of 1938 to the end of the war in the Halbe pocket in April 1945 and the subsequent flight to the west. It becomes unmistakably clear how, as the war progressed, it became more and more brutal, cost more and more victims and became more and more hopeless.
The reader follows Joachim Senholdt as he invades the Sudetenland, takes part in the attack on Poland, rolls over the Belgian border in the Ardennes on May 10, 1940 and fights against the Soviets with Senholdt’s Panzer Regiment in the desolate, flat steppe landscape of the Kerch Peninsula . One experiences the summer offensive of 1942 in the southern sector of the eastern front, the Soviet front breakthrough in December 1942, which leads to the encirclement of Stalingrad, and the smashing of Senholdt’s division in the winter of 1942/43.

In the end, Senholdt fought as commander of the assault gun company of the I./Panzer-Regiment “Brandenburg” in April 1945 on the Oder front and in the Halbe pocket. His week-long escape from the pocket to the west, constantly being pursued by the Soviets and constantly in mortal danger, represents the last part of the book.

A unique documentation that lets you feel the events of that time up close.

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