Barbarossa Sustained

The days of headlong pursuit with little or no Resistance by the Russian Armies had to come to an end at some point. For the soldiers of the German 58th Infantry Division that reality occurred just south of the Estonian …

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The days of headlong pursuit with little or no Resistance by the Russian Armies had to come to an end at some point. For the soldiers of the German 58th Infantry Division that reality occurred just south of the Estonian capital of Narva at the confluence of the Plyussa and Pyata Rivers. The 58th Division’s 154th Infantry Regiment was tasked with forcing a crossing over the Plyussa River. The Russians of the 48th Rifle Division had established a defensive position on the opposite bank of the river where they awaited the German assault. The fighting was determined and fierce but eventually went to the German’s who continued their drive towards Leningrad.

Plyussa River, Narva Vicinity, Estonia

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. The German Generalplan Ost aimed to use some of the conquered people as slave labour for the Axis war effort while acquiring the oil reserves of the Caucasus as well as the agricultural resources of various Soviet territories. Their ultimate goal included the eventual extermination, enslavement, Germanization and mass deportation to Siberia of the Slavic peoples, and to create more Lebensraum for Germany.

Wikipedia: Operation Barbarossa

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