Battle of Ozernitsa

At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, German tanks of Panzergruppe Guderian broke through the Soviet lines and made large encirclements, trapping the Soviet 4th and 10th armies in the Bialystok pocket. On June 27, German infantry of the 29.ID arrived …

1941-06-27

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At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, German tanks of Panzergruppe Guderian broke through the Soviet lines and made large encirclements, trapping the Soviet 4th and 10th armies in the Bialystok pocket. On June 27, German infantry of the 29.ID arrived in the area of Slonim and established a new front line around the village of Ozernitsa. They soon saw thousands of Soviet infantry, cavalry, T-26 tanks and an armored train advancing to trying and exit the pocket. When the Germans opened fire, it was a slaughter, the machine-guns swept the infantry and cavalry while the new 50mm AT guns destroyed the tanks and the armored train. The attempted breakthrough by the Russians was a bloody defeat. The stage is set, the battle lines are drawn and you are in command.

Zelva, 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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