Steelers708
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Joined: 12/7/2010 From: England Status: offline
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Have heard bad things about Mitcham OOB books, filled with errors they say. BUT also Nafziger writes in his German order of Battle, infantry in World War II "... On 8 May 1945 the division passed it to Russian captivity in Courland". Nafziger takes most of his data from Tessins Verbande und Truppen books. And theres error in Tessin book, he has mixed 5. borderguard with 3rd. 5th fought under 207. Sicherungs and later under Kampfgruppe Rebane. I don't know whether Mitcham revised the info in the later reprints of his book but I have the original single volume 1985 H/B version and to be honest it's terrible nowadays and I have to admit I was disappointed when I saw that they had used him as a source. I also have the 3 Nafziger volumes and they're good especially as they cover units not normally covered e.g. the construction battalions and Italian units in German service. The actual OOBs used in them were I believe originally produced as an aid to wargamers, he produced hundreds, if not thousands of these, covering every period from Ancients up to WWII. As an ex-tabletop wargamer I have them all on a series of DVD's as they were, and I believe still are, available to download. I have 16 volumes of Tessin's Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945 and I would consider it the go to series, yes it has errors but you can find an errata for these errors on Leo Niehorster's website. I would also highly recommend the book German Ground Forces of World War II: Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945 by William T. Mcroden and Thomas E. Nutter and published by Savas Beattie.
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