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This book should be read after Faust’s earlier “Tiger Tracks.” It completes the tale of the tragic fall of the German forces, leaving the reader to wonder, with Faust, how Hitler could have thought it a good idea for Germany, already fighting Western Europe and North Africa, with the inevitable expenditure of men and materials that fighting entailed, could have thought it a workable strategy to further scatter its forces attacking an enormous country subject to brutal weather, which had defeated even Napoleon. And what must have gone through the minds of his forces as the reality of the stupidity of their leader became clear. .

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In April 1945, victorious Soviet forces encircled 80,000 men of the German 9th Army in the Halbe area, South of Berlin, together with many thousands of women and children. While the Battle of Berlin is widely known, the horrific story of the Halbe Kessel has been largely untold.

The 9th Army, desperate to avoid capture by the Russians, fought furiously to break out towards the West, where they could surrender to the comparative safety of the Americans. For the German civilians trapped in the Kessel, the quest to escape took on frantic dimensions, as the terror of Red Army brutality spread. The small town of Halbe became the eye of the hurricane for the attempted breakout, as King Tigers of the SS Panzer Corps led the spearhead to the West, supported by the Panthers of the 21st Panzer Division.

Panzer by panzer, unit by unit, the breakout forces were cut down – until only a handful of Panthers, other armour, battered infantry units and columns of shattered refugees made a final escape to the American lines.

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This first-hand account by the commander of one of those Panther tanks relates with shocking clarity the conditions inside the Kessel, the ferocity of the breakout attempt through Halbe, and the subsequent running battles between overwhelming Soviet forces and the exhausted Reich troops, who were using their last reserves of fuel, ammunition, strength and hope.

Eloquent German-perspective accounts of World War 2 are surprisingly rare, and the recent reissue of Wolfgang Faust’s 1948 memoir ‘Tiger Tracks’ has fascinated readers around the world with its insight into the Eastern Front. In ‘The Last Panther,’ Faust used his unique knowledge of tank warfare to describe the final collapse of the Third Reich and the murderous combat between the German and Russian armies. He gives us a personal insight into the cataclysmic final hours of the Reich, and the horrors of this last eruption of violence among the idyllic forests and meadows of Germany.

The Last Panther – Slaughter of the Reich – The Halbe Kessel 1945 Info

• File Size: 745 KB ( Download PDF : )


• Author: Wolfgang Faust


• Language: English


• ASIN: B00Y1R4X92


• Print Length: 129 pages


• Publisher: Bayern Classic Publications (May 20, 2015)

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