Bug River

The first wave of the German 56th Infantry Division crossed the Bug River east of Chelm, Poland, overrunning defending Soviet bunker fortifications. Using up nearly all their heavy ammunition, the Germans were caught on the east side of the river …

1941-06-22

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The first wave of the German 56th Infantry Division crossed the Bug River east of Chelm, Poland, overrunning defending Soviet bunker fortifications. Using up nearly all their heavy ammunition, the Germans were caught on the east side of the river without artillery support. The Soviets launch a vicious counter-attack to retake the bunkers before the Germans can reinforce their positions. The situation is especially critical for the German 192nd Infantry Regiment, who must survive without getting wiped out.

Chelm, Poland

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

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