Breakthrough to Mzensk Pocket

Soviet forces have trapped a German element in a village near Mzensk. Cut off, the Germans are in desperate need of supplies. Intelligence reports they will attempt to reinforce and resupply from the north. Three wagons of ammunition and food …

1941-10-30

AtB08

Soviet forces have trapped a German element in a village near Mzensk. Cut off, the Germans are in desperate need of supplies. Intelligence reports they will attempt to reinforce and resupply from the north. Three wagons of ammunition and food are part of this relief force. General Katukov is sending elements of the 4th Tank Brigade with T-34 and KV tanks to stop the German breakthrough attempt.

Mzensk, 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 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.

Wikipedia: Operation Barbarossa

German

Russian