4/26/2023 0 Comments Army group north barbarossaVon Leeb had 21 infantry, three panzer, and two motorized divisions at his disposal. Operation Barbarossa-the life and death struggle between Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Communist Russia-had begun. Following the combat engineers who were clearing paths through the barbed wire and minefields along the border, the assault regiments stormed forward. Long before midnight, assault infantry and engineers had begun moving toward the border with the Soviet Union, the silence broken only by an occasional cough and the croaking of the frogs that called the deep grass and marshy areas of East Prussia home.Īt 3 am on June 22, the darkness was broken by the flashes of German artillery firing on predesignated targets in the Soviet-occupied Lithuanian countryside. ![]() The men of Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe Nord (Army Group North) had little sleep during the night of June 21, 1941.
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