Pripet Marsh

Operation Barbarossa in July was well under way. Such was the success and speed of the German advance that the supply lines were severely overstretched. Many of the previously bypassed Soviet units began to coordinate limited counter-attacks on Axis supply …

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Operation Barbarossa in July was well under way. Such was the success and speed of the German advance that the supply lines were severely overstretched. Many of the previously bypassed Soviet units began to coordinate limited counter-attacks on Axis supply routes. Some of the most successful counter-attacks were staged from the Pripet Marshes. The German forces in the area, although weary, dug themselves into a natural defensive position to confront the elements of the Red Army that threatened their supplies. Unfortunately there was no armor or Luftwaffe support because both of those elements were deployed closer to the front.

Pripet Marsh, 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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