The Nutcracker

During the final phase of Operation TYPHOON, German Panzer-Armee 4 broke through Russian defenses northeast of Moscow. General Reinhardt's Panzer-Korps LVI was able to cross the Moskva-Volga Canal at Yakhroma on 27 November but could not hold its bridgehead. Reinhardt decided to shift to the defense, but …

1941-12-07

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During the final phase of Operation TYPHOON, German Panzer-Armee 4 broke through Russian defenses northeast of Moscow. General Reinhardt's Panzer-Korps LVI was able to cross the Moskva-Volga Canal at Yakhroma on 27 November but could not hold its bridgehead. Reinhardt decided to shift to the defense, but was severely limited in both forces and supplies. Unknown to German intelligence, the Russians had accumulated three new armies in this sector. The exposed left flank of the Klin bulge was held by a mere screening force of two depleted motorized infantry divisions. At 0600 on December 6, in freezing conditions, the 1st Shock and 30th Armies crashed into these thinly-held lines, signaling the start of Stalin's winter offensive.

Klin, Russia

The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union.

Russian

German

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