Soviet Union-Army Group North-, battle of Cholm.- Fallen Red Army
soldiers stacked to form a wall / stacked by surrounded German troops
who have removed boots in the -32deg weather.
The Combat Group Scherer was a motley crowd. It consisted of units of
123rd Infantry Division, of the 218th Infantry Division, which had
only just been transferred to the Eastern Front from Denmark, and of
the 553rd Infantry Regiment, 329th Infantry Division. There were also
then the 3rd Battalion, 1st Luftwaffe Field Regiment, and the Reserve
Police Battalion 65 of 285th Local Defence Division. There was even a
naval motor-transport unit. From these groups of varying sizes Colonel
Manitius, commanding 386th Infantry Regiment belonging to 218th
Infantry Division, the Operations Commandant, moulded an efficient
fighting force of which he himself was the soul and inspiration.
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