Breakout from Borisov

Borisov, East of the Berezina River, 2 July 1941: After Tenacious fighting the 52nd Panzer Grenadier Regt. drove the Rusians from Borisov and established a bridgehead across the river. The Russians, under direct orders from General Yeremenko, were to crush the bridgehead. The only available forces were an assortment of …

1941-07-02

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Borisov, East of the Berezina River, 2 July 1941: After Tenacious fighting the 52nd Panzer Grenadier Regt. drove the Rusians from Borisov and established a bridgehead across the river. The Russians, under direct orders from General Yeremenko, were to crush the bridgehead. The only available forces were an assortment of men and equipment from the local armoured forces college. At the same time the German 18th Panzer division was ordered to expand the bridgehead. The two attacks met head on outside Borisov.

Borisov, Belarus

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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Russian

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