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The fierce fighting that took place around the tiny West German hamlet of Lutten during those fateful August days of 1985 have barely been captured in the official histories, recently declassified:
” 9 August 1985…9. Panzer was reassigned to the Soviet 20th Guards Army where it joined the 11th Motor Rifles for the push south towards Osnabruck, Rheine and the Mittelland Kanal. Again they faced more of their fellow Germans from the Bundeswehr, who conducted a stubborn fighting withdrawal towards the canal. A savage tank battle broke out around the town of Vechta as 9. Panzer ran into the armoured rearguard of the West German Panzerdivision 3…”
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