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After a success during the 20 july plot, Wehrmacht take control of SS units and decide to follow a more rationnal strategy than during Hitler's rule.

During Bagration the germans use the Kriegsmarine to evacuate the Baltic Pocket.
At the and of july/begining of august the Army Groups are ordered to retreat behind the Vistula.
Prisonners and reserve troops have built fortification.
Evacuated troops from the Baltic are ready to fight.
At the end of Bagration soviet troop are low on supplies and tired.

The new german command chain in the east it the following:
Oberbefehlshaber Est - Guderian

  • Heeresgruppe Nord - Von Kleist
  • Heeresgruppe Mitte- Von Mainstein
  • Heeresgruppe NordUkraine - Model

Oberbefehlshaber Süd- Von Weichs


  • Heeresgruppe SüdUkraine- Shörner
  • Heeresgruppe E- Löhr
Germans decide to counter attack with all they've got. The Goal, buying to time to fortify the Vistula and Oder during the winter.

In this condition, what is the best german counter attack plan, how it would look like, how it would be conducted, what to could be the result?
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