Clearing Kamienka

After two weeks of Operation Barbarossa, the spearheads of Guderian’s Panzergruppe 2 had raced ahead of the bulk of the 4th Army. The infantry units were straining to catch up and had the unenviable tasks of mopping up the growing number of bypassed pockets of Russian units, and providing …

1941-07-05

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After two weeks of Operation Barbarossa, the spearheads of Guderian’s Panzergruppe 2 had raced ahead of the bulk of the 4th Army. The infantry units were straining to catch up and had the unenviable tasks of mopping up the growing number of bypassed pockets of Russian units, and providing security for the flanks and the lengthening supply lines. Infanterie Regiment (mot.) Grossdeutschland was assigned to open up the vital supply route R2, where at Kamienka a pocket of Russians troops had set up a block after breaking out of the woods to the north of the town. The 17th (Motorcycle) Company was dispatched to re-open the road, but was ambushed on the way in with heavy casualties. It was clear that a major effort was needed to clear Kamienka.

Kamienka, Russia

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.

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