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Title
The Belikowo Pocket
Description
Units of the 6th Tank Brigade were caught off-guard by the speed of the German advance. They found themselves pocketed in the vicinity of Belikowo. An attempt to breakout to …
Subject
Source
Publisher
Date
1941-06-24
Scenario#
E05
Scenario Description
Units of the 6th Tank Brigade were caught off-guard by the speed of the German advance. They found themselves pocketed in the vicinity of Belikowo. An attempt to breakout to the north was met by German tank forces.
Location
Belikowo, Poland
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
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.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Operation Barbarossa
External Link
Combatants
German
Russian
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Geolocation
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