Battle of Maciejow

On the 22nd of June 1944, the Soviet army launched Operatsiya Bagration against Heeresgruppe "Mitte". In the area of Kovel, in western Ukraine, the II/SS-Pz Rgt.5, equipped with Panther tanks, had to defend the city of Maciejow. On the 7th …

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On the 22nd of June 1944, the Soviet army launched Operatsiya Bagration against Heeresgruppe "Mitte". In the area of Kovel, in western Ukraine, the II/SS-Pz Rgt.5, equipped with Panther tanks, had to defend the city of Maciejow. On the 7th of July, the 11th Tank Corps under the command of Soviet General Rudkine attacked the German main defensive line kept by units of the 26. Infanterie Division. The Panthers of the SS Division Wiking entered in the battle and stopped the Soviet advance for two days, inflicting heavy losses to the Rudkine's T-34. In this area, the Soviet offensive was temporarily stopped.

Maciejow, Ukraine

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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