Busting in Balta

Balta was to be bypassed by the main German force as the attack towards Odessa continued. However, Pioneer-Regiment 744 was ordered to capture Balta to protect the flank of the main attack. At 0840, Kompanie C attacked from the southeast. After an hour, it had penetrated the …

1941-08-03

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Balta was to be bypassed by the main German force as the attack towards Odessa continued. However, Pioneer-Regiment 744 was ordered to capture Balta to protect the flank of the main attack. At 0840, Kompanie C attacked from the southeast. After an hour, it had penetrated the southeast corner of town and was astride the main street. The primary attack on the norther part of town was initially held up by Soviet air attacks on German assembly areas, but was now underway. Kompanie C Commander Ehrhardt decided to exploit his initial success by preventing Red Army forces from withdrawing to the southwest. Ehrhardt gave orders for the capture of the southern half of Balta and sent out patrols to link up with the rest of the regiment.

Balta, Ukraine

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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