Pössl’s Posse

The Soviet advance during their summer offensive was rapid and combined with Hitler"s “no retreat” order led to many German units becoming trapped inside cities. At Vilnius, remnants of two German regiments under the command of Luftwaffe Major General Rainer Stahel battled encircling forces from the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps. …

1944-07-12

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The Soviet advance during their summer offensive was rapid and combined with Hitler"s “no retreat” order led to many German units becoming trapped inside cities. At Vilnius, remnants of two German regiments under the command of Luftwaffe Major General Rainer Stahel battled encircling forces from the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps. In response. two German Kampfgruppen were formed primarily from Panzer Division 6 and Panzer Regiment “Grossdeutschland.” After rounding up Lithuanian partisans, one of the Kampfgruppen led by Major Walter Piissl, began to open a 50-kilometer escape route for the Germans in Vilnius. As the Germans began to pull out of Vilnius, the 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps counterattacked.

Kaunas, 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 as slave labour for the Axis war effort, to acquire the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories, and eventually through extermination, enslavement, Germanization and mass deportation to Siberia, remove the Slavic peoples and create Lebensraum for Germany.

Russian

German

Scenario Type = Standard