Battle of Raseiniai

On the 22nd of June 1941,Operation Barbarossa, the German attack of Soviet Union began. The objective for Army Group "Nord" was to destroy all Soviet forces in in the Baltic countries and then to advance to Leningrad. Panzer-Gruppe 4 was …

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On the 22nd of June 1941,Operation Barbarossa, the German attack of Soviet Union began. The objective for Army Group "Nord" was to destroy all Soviet forces in in the Baltic countries and then to advance to Leningrad. Panzer-Gruppe 4 was the spearhead and had to capture the bridges on the Duna River. While the 61.Armee Korps advanced quickly to Dunaburg, on its left wing the 41.Armee Korps was stopped near Raseiniai by a counter-attack made by the Soviet 3rd Motorized Corps. German soldiers discovered suddenly the Soviet heavy tanks KV-1 and KV-2 which resist to all German anti-tank shells. During two days, units of the 6.Panzer Division and 1.Panzer Division fought fiercely to defeat this unexpected Resistance. On the 26th of June finally, the total destruction on the Soviet 3rd Motorized Corps opened the way of the 41.Armee Korps to the Duna River.

Raseiniai, Lithuania

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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