The US Army Kept a German General's Winter Warfare Manual for Decades

Get both copies of German Command Ebooks here: https://www.germancommand.com/ Description: The US Army published a German general's winter warfare manual in 1952 and kept it in print for over seventy years, never naming its author on the cover. Department of the Army Pamphlet 20-291, Effects of Climate on Combat in European Russia, was written by former Wehrmacht officers under US supervision, with most of it attributed to Erhard Raus, who commanded panzer divisions and armies on the Eastern Front. The study claims the winter of 1941-42 was the coldest in a century, records temperatures as low as minus sixty-three Fahrenheit near Moscow, and details how frostbite, frozen weapons, and mud crippled German forces. It praises Soviet tank design and explains how terrain defeated the Wehrmacht as much as the Red Army did. The Army reissued it as a facsimile in 1986, and commercial publishers have kept it available since, but the pamphlet carries no author's name, no source citations, and temperature figures that contradict the Army's own 1981 meteorological study of the same campaign.