411 THE KAMENETS-PODOLSKY POCKET 1944: Encirclement of Hube's 1st Panzer Army

A detailed exploration of a critical month-long battle, which set the stage for German strategic-level defeats on both the Eastern and Western fronts. Presents an examination of the initial Soviet encirclement operation, Hube's full-scale breakout operation to save his army, and the relief operation by 2nd SS-Panzer Corps (redeployed from the West) in April 1944. Although Hube's army managed to escape Zhukov's trap, it lost most of its equipment and was no longer fully combat capable. The German Army in the East had been seriously weakened, and the amount of German armor deployed in the West to counter any Allied landings in France had simultaneously been reduced.