Authors: Prit Buttar
Tags: #Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II
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Konets global’noi Ishi: Na sovetskom severozapade – Operativnye plany zapadhykh prigranichnykh okrugov 1941 godasvidetel’-stvuiut: SSSR ne gotovilsia knapadeniiu na Germaniiu’ in Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 6 (Nov–Dec 1996): 2, pp.3–4
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Chapter 3
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. Haupt (1987), p.145
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. For accounts of the battle, see Raus, E. (2003)
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. Pavlov was arrested and charged with treason; he was executed within days
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Chapter 4
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. Levin, D. (1995)
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. Hillgruber, A.,
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. Orders of
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Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Sicherungsaufträge
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. Orders of Commander 3rd Panzer Group, 28 June 1941, Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, RH 26-20/19
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. Evidence of Fritz Bartmann, quoted in Wette, W.
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. Evidence of Heinz Jost, quoted in Wette, W. in Bartusevičius et al, p.85
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. Jäger Report
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. Eckert, C. (2003),
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. Sackowicz, K. (1999)
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. Tomkiewicz, W. (2008)
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. Langerbein, H. (2004)
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41
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. Quoted in Lustiger, A. (2003)
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. For an account of Schmid’s activities, see Lustiger, pp.185–97
46
. Inčiūrienė, J. (2003)
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. Neumann, A. (2003)
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