PART 1 ;Germany's Most Elite Division: How the Soviets Erased Grossdeutschland in East Prussia On paper it was the single best division in the German Army: twenty thousand men, one hundred and sixty tanks, first in line for every new Panther and Tiger. By the spring of nineteen forty-five it was thirteen tanks and four thousand men, pinned against the Baltic. This is how the Red Army erased Germany's proudest formation — not in one battle, but with a machine: concentrate, encircle, cut the lifel