Klaus looked at his squad. They were ghosts wrapped in grey coats. He remembered the propaganda films from the summer—the gleaming Panzers and the talk of "miracle weapons." Now, they watched the horizon for the T-34s, knowing that when the barrage started, the sky itself would turn black. The Bitter End
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The documentation of these final months often speaks of "elastic defense," but to the men in the foxholes, there was nothing flexible about it. It was a rigid, desperate clinging to frozen dirt. : Rusted steel and dwindling ammunition. Klaus looked at his squad