Bayerlein

Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Commander of the Panzer Lehr Division, wrote twenty manuscripts while interred as a U.S. The entire series of manuscripts, commonly referred to as "Foreign Military Studies", was prepared post-war by hundreds of senior German officers at the direction of the U.S. Army prisoner of war from April 1945 until his release from captivity two years later.

Bayerlein cooperated whole-heartedly and honestly with the U.S. Army's Historical Division. Army, telling his own version of events as they unfolded, starting with the creation of the famous Panzer Lehr Division.

Bayerlein recounts his experiences through the horrors of D-Day, his retreat to the Rhine, the failed Ardennes Offensive, and on to his final days of fighting with his LIII Armeekorps in the Ruhr Pocket. All of General Bayerlein's manuscripts are presented here, compiled into a chronological narrative