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Title
Death's Head At Lusho
Description
As Army Group North continued to press at the gates of Leningrad, to protect its right flank the German 16th Army and SS Totenkopf Division had been compelled to entrench west of the Pola River. Following fierce engagements in the …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1941-09-24
Scenario#
SSTK 1A
Scenario Description
As Army Group North continued to press at the gates of Leningrad, to protect its right flank the German 16th Army and SS Totenkopf Division had been compelled to entrench west of the Pola River. Following fierce engagements in the region, the Germans were convinced that the adverse weather and heavy fighting had weakened the Russians far more than themselves. In spite of information received from deserters on the previous day warning them of the impending attack, the Germans were caught completely off guard by the size and intensity of the assault. The heaviest blow fell on Lusho where two Soviet regiments, charging behind a screen of tanks, measured the German defenses.
Location
Valdai Hills, Russia
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
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.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
Russian

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