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Title
Slamming of the Door
Description
In order to improve the flow of supplies to the German troops driving on Leningrad, the need for the great Leningrad Highway became apparent. A key position on the highway was the strongpoint prepared at Luga. To take the Luga …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1941-08-17
Scenario#
102
Scenario Description
In order to improve the flow of supplies to the German troops driving on Leningrad, the need for the great Leningrad Highway became apparent. A key position on the highway was the strongpoint prepared at Luga. To take the Luga position the decision was made to drive through to the great highway behind Luga and take the strongpoint from the North. One of the actions, as the Germans attempted to roll up the Russian defenses covering the highway, was conducted by the 1st battalion, 409th Infantry Regiment. The plan called for the crossing of the Oredezh River and the securing of the Panikovo Village. The crossing of the river was completed with little enemy Resistance. Patrols were sent out and returned with no sign of Russians. At 1500 hours the battalion moved out toward Panikovo. Soon the German units discovered the reason for the Russian silence. A deadly trap had been laid. Russian infantry came rushing out of the woods along with support tanks striking at the exposed German flanks. In an effort to speed its advance through the forest the battalion had neglected to bring any anti-tank guns along. This neglect allowed the Russian tanks almost complete freedom of movement. The German commander had little choice but to form a "hedgehog" and wait for relief.
Location
Panikovo forest, Russia
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
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.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
Russian

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