Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang refers to Ulrike Meinhof's "characteristic inefficiency" and fellow member Siegfried Hausner's persistent bungling as an urban guerilla. The "Boston Globe" called this book "the definitive study of the Baader- Meinhof gang". In a review in the "New York Times", Stephen Spender wrote that the book is "strong on facts and useful source material and is a good crime story" but criticized it as "turgidly written". Although critical of the book's title, Klaus Vondung called the book a "penetrating study of the Red Army Faction" in his book, "The Apocalypse in Germany". Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang
Army Group Centre commenced. At the start of the Vistula-Oder Offensive, the Soviet forces facing Army Group Centre outnumbered the Germans on average by 2:1 in troops, 3:1 in artillery, and 5.5:1 in tanks and self-propelled artillery. The Soviet superiority in troop strength grows to almost 3:1 if 200,000 Volkssturm militia are not included in German personnel strength totals. On 25 January 1945, Hitler renamed three army groups. Army Group North became Army Group Courland, Army Group Centre became Army Group North, and Army Group A became Army Group Centre. Army Group Centre fought in the defence of Slovakia and Bohemia-Moravia as well