Map Discussion of 19. Panzer-Division

 

Lagebesprechung (situation meeting) of the officers from 19. Panzer-Division during the Unternehmen Barbarossa (German invasion of the Soviet Union), summer 1941. Second from right is Generalleutnant Otto von Knobelsdorff (Kommandeur 19. Panzer-Division), while second from left is Oberst Gustav Schmidt (Kommandeur 19. Schützen-Brigade). Oberst Schmidt would later replace General Knobelsdorff as the Divisionskommandeur in January 1942. When the 19. Panzer-Division was torn apart by the Soviet counterattack in the Battle of Kursk, on August 7, 1943 Gustav Schmidt decided to commit suicide instead of being a prisoner of the hated Communists.

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