World War II Winter and Mountain Warfare Tactics by Stephen Bull

Author:Stephen Bull
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: World War II Winter and Mountain Warfare Tactics
ISBN: 9781782007975
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Emergency clothing

General Halder claimed that Army High Command took preliminary steps for supply of winter clothing in the late summer. Ski requisitions did start before autumn, but little progress was made in producing, still less in transporting and delivering all the paraphernalia required in the depths of winter. Supplies of civilian clothing were now sought from the home front through the emergency collection by the Winterhilfswerk ‘Winter Relief’ organization. Leutnant Gottlob Bidermann, fighting with 132. Inf Div, remembered clearly the arrival of the ‘warm ski sweaters, fur vests, sports clothing, heavy blankets and wool mittens’ donated in Germany – but not until February 1942, which was too little, and far too late. As the ever-analytical Gen Rauss related:

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