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Title
Bald Hill
Description
During the first weeks of September the final attack on Leningrad, the great objective of the northern campaign was begun. The main German thrust against the center of the Leningrad defenses was in the area known as the Duderhof Hills. …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1941-09-11
Scenario#
103
Scenario Description
During the first weeks of September the final attack on Leningrad, the great objective of the northern campaign was begun. The main German thrust against the center of the Leningrad defenses was in the area known as the Duderhof Hills. These hills were the key to the bulwark of Leningrad's last belt of defenses. The ridge lines were heavily armed with naval gun emplacements, pillboxes, trenches and supporting machine gun posts. One of the most important of the commanding hills was known as "Bald Hill", or as it appeared on the military maps, Hill 167. Occupation of Hill 167 meant the ultimate control of Leningrad's last defensive position. The center of the city would be barely 15 miles away. The task of taking the hill was assigned to the 1st Panzer Division in a combined arms attack with air support supplied by the Stukas of the VIII Air Corps.
Location
Leningrad, 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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