Sea of Azov

On September 26, 1941, Soviet units from the 9th and 18th Army attack the northern flank of the German 11th Army. The 1st Mountain Division and the "LSSAH" Motorized Division are rushed into position to bolster the German lines. Although …

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On September 26, 1941, Soviet units from the 9th and 18th Army attack the northern flank of the German 11th Army. The 1st Mountain Division and the "LSSAH" Motorized Division are rushed into position to bolster the German lines. Although some units buckled under the constant Soviet pressure, the attack soon stalled from a combination of poor coordination, limited planning, and German Resistance. The Soviet units withdraw to prepared positions including minefields and anti-tank obstacles around Melitopol. Seizing the opportunity for a decisive German counterstroke, von Rundstedt orders Mackensen's III Panzer Corps on a wide flanking move that gains the rear of the Russian forces. When the Panzers are in position, the Germans launch a frontal assault led by the "LSSAH" Motorized Division while Mackensen's Panzers hit the Russian rear. Completely outmaneuvered, the 9th and 18th Soviet Armies were crushed. After three months of pushing on the Southwest Front, von Rundstedt's forces were able to achieve a major encirclement and victory.

Melitopol, Russia

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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