'Wacht am Rhein' 19.Dec.1944 1.SS Panzerkorps Stavelot (2)

Leaving I. Battalion in position facing across the river towards Stavelot, Sandig thereupon sent II.Battalion, under the command of SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Schnelle, through Wanne towards Petit-Spai, where it was ordered by Mohnke, the divisional commander, to cross the bridge there and join Peiper. Ellements did so early on in the morning of December 20 and got to Le Gleize around midday…the last grenadiers that would kampfgruppe Peier.
 In the petit-Spai are Mohnke had meanwhile been building up strength late that afternoon. What remained at Wanne of the tanks of 7.Kompanie of SS.Pz.Rgt. 1, plus some other of the regiment’s tanks, were gathered with the first elements to arrive of Hansen’s SS.Gren.Rgt.1 which was making its way up from Recht. Hansen described after the war how even some of the regiment’s tracked vehicles were unable to cope with the glutinous ‘roads’, but among the equipment which had reached Petit-Spai were some anti-tank guns and these were taken over t the north bank to cover the bridge.