ABSTRACT
By 15 January not even Hitler could pretend any more that the Eastern Front could ‘make do with what it’s got.’ That day was the last of his sojourn at Ziegenberg in the Hessian woods. Guderian was far distant, and without asking for his advice, the Führer ordered two divisions of the Grossdeutschland Panzer Corps down from East Prussia to the scene of the fighting at Kielce.
