With a roar of Maybach engines, the 1st Panzer Division surged forward. They were the tip of the spear for Army Group North, tasked with a lightning strike across the Baltics toward Leningrad. The Race to the Dubysa
As the engines turned toward the south, the radio once again crackled with the familiar, relentless command: Key Facts about the 1st Panzer Division: Achtung Panzer, Marsch! With the 1st German Pan...
While "Achtung Panzer!" was Guderian's book title, the 1st Panzer lived by the doctrine of Klotzen, nicht kleckern ("Thump them, don't tickle them"). With a roar of Maybach engines, the 1st
By the second day, they reached the Dubysa River near Raseiniai. It was here that Kurt saw the face of a new kind of war. Emerging from the treeline was a Soviet monster—the KV-2. It was a massive, slab-sided tank that dwarfed their Panzer IIIs. By the second day, they reached the Dubysa
Formed in 1935, it was one of the original three Panzer divisions.