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The siege was the longest and most enduring of World War Two if not the entire twentieth century, what was initially a planned attack to take the city in four weeks turned into a nine-hundred-day siege of immense proportions.
Since before Leningrad was called such she was called Saint Petersburg and in her long history had never been invaded, despite this Hitler announced that it was to be the first great Soviet city to fall and city was to be wiped off the face of the earth.
In 1941 the decision was taken Leningrad was a symbolic with Operation Barbarossa have three main objectives :
- With army group south taking the industrial might of the Soviet Union heading to the oil fields of the Cacausses.
- Army group Centre heading for the country's capital and political headquarters Moscow.
- And Army group north with its orders to take the historical symbol of Bolshevism Leningrad because it was here in 1917 that the October Revolution was proclaimed.
Hitler said that it was a war of ideology taking Leningrad will deprave the Russian people of the symbol to their revolution.
The German planned to take quickly the city so the same troops could be used the same troop to conquer Moscow.
Leningrad will become Hitler's grave because it was proved that the fight for the city was a fight for pure survival and that Leningraders were not afraid of death but that death was affair of Leningrad.
Life, honour, happiness, everything was at stake in this mortal challenge. With stiff resistance containing and troops needed elsewhere, the Panzer battalions disengaged and went south to Moscow, leaving the long-range artillery.
The battle of Leningrad had effectively become a siege. Surrounded on all sides, there was not an effective way to get supplies into the city, Goebbels saying that Leningrad is doomed to die of famine.
The entire population was put on the ration of a few loaves of black bread per day, with many of some parts of the population turning to cannibalism.
Health problems from the survivors many died later as a result.
The 'Road of Life', a frozen lake that in January 1942 saw a passage through which vital supplies could be smuggled into the encircled city.
Spring saw a pipeline to bring oil to the city under siege, the Soviet offensive in late 1943 saw 200,000 men make a pincer movement which by January 1944 was able lift the siege so that the city was no longer an island.
The Siege of Leningrad had taken the lives of over 1 million of its citizens either from air attacks, artillery bombardments, starvation and disease; the population stood firm until the only Germans who entered the city were prisoners of war, being the only German soldiers to serve in a single army group during the entire war.
The siege was lifted, but it would take another year to completely defeat the German army, and with the lifting of the siege certain came down the iron certain with the return of Soviet oppression, seeing many he
The siege was the longest and most enduring of World War Two if not the entire twentieth century, what was initially a planned attack to take the city in four weeks turned into a nine-hundred-day siege of immense proportions.
Since before Leningrad was called such she was called Saint Petersburg and in her long history had never been invaded, despite this Hitler announced that it was to be the first great Soviet city to fall and city was to be wiped off the face of the earth.
In 1941 the decision was taken Leningrad was a symbolic with Operation Barbarossa have three main objectives :
- With army group south taking the industrial might of the Soviet Union heading to the oil fields of the Cacausses.
- Army group Centre heading for the country's capital and political headquarters Moscow.
- And Army group north with its orders to take the historical symbol of Bolshevism Leningrad because it was here in 1917 that the October Revolution was proclaimed.
Hitler said that it was a war of ideology taking Leningrad will deprave the Russian people of the symbol to their revolution.
The German planned to take quickly the city so the same troops could be used the same troop to conquer Moscow.
Leningrad will become Hitler's grave because it was proved that the fight for the city was a fight for pure survival and that Leningraders were not afraid of death but that death was affair of Leningrad.
Life, honour, happiness, everything was at stake in this mortal challenge. With stiff resistance containing and troops needed elsewhere, the Panzer battalions disengaged and went south to Moscow, leaving the long-range artillery.
The battle of Leningrad had effectively become a siege. Surrounded on all sides, there was not an effective way to get supplies into the city, Goebbels saying that Leningrad is doomed to die of famine.
The entire population was put on the ration of a few loaves of black bread per day, with many of some parts of the population turning to cannibalism.
Health problems from the survivors many died later as a result.
The 'Road of Life', a frozen lake that in January 1942 saw a passage through which vital supplies could be smuggled into the encircled city.
Spring saw a pipeline to bring oil to the city under siege, the Soviet offensive in late 1943 saw 200,000 men make a pincer movement which by January 1944 was able lift the siege so that the city was no longer an island.
The Siege of Leningrad had taken the lives of over 1 million of its citizens either from air attacks, artillery bombardments, starvation and disease; the population stood firm until the only Germans who entered the city were prisoners of war, being the only German soldiers to serve in a single army group during the entire war.
The siege was lifted, but it would take another year to completely defeat the German army, and with the lifting of the siege certain came down the iron certain with the return of Soviet oppression, seeing many he
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