At Leningrad's Gates

by Wehrmacht Captain William Lubbec

  118 Light machineguns

  36 Heavy machineguns

  27 50-mm mortars

  18 80-mm mortars

  6 75-mm light howitzers (In 1942, three add’l 105-mm mortars)

  2 150-mm heavy howitzers

  12 37-mm anti-tank guns (In 1941, two 50-mm)

  APPENDIX B

  REFERENCE OF PLACE NAMES

  This book uses the names of population centers and geographic locations as they were known at the time. Following is a list of how are known today.

  Historic Name – Contemporary Usage

  Dudergof – Mozhaiskii

  Düna River – Daugava River

  Dünaburg – Daugavpils

  Elbing – Elblag

  Fischhausen – Primorsk

  Frisches Haff – Vistula Isthmus

  Frische Nehrung – Vistula Isthmus

  Gdingen – Gdynia

  Gulf of Danzig – Gulf of Gdansk

  Heiligenbeil – Mamonovo

  Hela – Hel

  Heyderkrug – Silute

  Königsburg – Kaliningrad

  Krasnogvardeisk—Gatcina

  Kurisches Haff – Curonian Bay

  Kurische Nehrung – Curonian Isthmus

  Labiau – Polessk

  Lake Peipus – Lake Chudskoye

  Leningrad – St. Petersburg

  Libau – Liepaja

  Memel – Klaipeda

  Oranienbaum – Lomonosov

  Pillau – Baltiysk

  Reval – Tallinn

  Stutthof – Sztutowo

  Tilsit – Sovetsk

  Weichsel River Estuary – Vistula River Estuary

  APPENDIX C

  TABLE OF EQUIVALENT RANKS

  This is a list of German ranks and the approximate English equivalents as indicated in the book. Please note that this list does not include all ranks and that some of the ranks are translated differently in other sources.

  Oberst – colonel

  Oberstleutnant – lieutenant colonel

  Major – major

  Hauptmann – captain

  Rittmeister – cavalry captain

  Oberleutnant – first lieutenant

  Leutnant – second lieutenant

  Oberfähnrich – senior officer candidate

  Fähnrich – junior officer candidate

  Hauptfeldwebel – senior sergeant

  Oberfeldwebel – staff sergeant

  Feldwebel – sergeant

  Unteroffizier – corporal

  Obergefreiter – lance corporal

  Gefreiter – private first class

  Schütze – private

  ENDNOTE

  The 154th Infantry Regiment, in which I served from 1939 to 1945, suffered total casualties as follows: 300 officers of which 73 were killed; 2,241 non-commissioned officers of which 485 where killed; and 10,810 other enlisted personnel of which 1,824 were killed. Of its total of 13,351 casualties, 2,382 were killed, 10,021 were wounded, and 948 soldiers were listed as missing. Among the divisions in Army Group North, the 58th Infantry Division received the second highest number of decorations.2

  REFERENCES

  1. Federal Textbook on Citizenship Training (US Government Printing Office, 1931), Lesson 61.

  2. Von Zydowitz, Kurt. Die Geschichte der 58. Infanterie-Division 1939–1945 (Podzun: Kiel, 1952).