Tikhvin

As the final assault on Leningrad ground to a halt, Army Group North made one last bid to link up with the Finns who were advancing to the east of Lake Ladoga. Because of the difficult campaign they had been …

1941-12-01

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As the final assault on Leningrad ground to a halt, Army Group North made one last bid to link up with the Finns who were advancing to the east of Lake Ladoga. Because of the difficult campaign they had been bogged down in, von Leeb's forces were battered and weary, and things were not getting easier; Stavka had formed three new armies to face them along the River Volkhov. Stalin urged his commanders to attack to relieve the pressure around Leningrad, but the Germans struck first with the XXXIX Panzer Corps under von Arnim. With great difficulty, the Panzers fought through the woods and marshes to take Tikhvin. Group Boeckman got to within 4 miles of Volkhov, resulting in Kulik's execution. However, General Meretskov, just released from NKVD prison, took over the Soviet forces and launched an offensive that pushed von Leeb's men all the way back to their start lines on the Volkhov.

Tikhvin, Russia

The Siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany against the Soviet city of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front in World War II. The Finnish army invaded from the north, co-operating with the Germans until Finland had recaptured territory lost in the recent Winter War, but refused to make further approaches to the city. Also co-operating with the Germans since 1942 in August: the Spanish Blue Division that was transferred to the southeastern flank of the siege of Leningrad, just south of the Neva near Pushkin, Kolpino and its main intervention was in Krasny Bor in the Izhora River area. The siege began on 8 September 1941, when the Wehrmacht severed the last road to the city. Although Soviet forces managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on 18 January 1943, the Red Army did not lift the siege until 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began. The blockade became one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, and it was possibly the costliest siege in history due to the number of casualties which were suffered during it. In the 2ist century some historians have classified it as a genocide due to the systematic starvation and intentional destruction of the city's civilian population.

Wikipedia: Siege of Leningrad

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