![]() ![]() Skillfully utilizing terrain and ruthlessly exploiting the civilian population, the Soviets construct a fortified line along the Luga River that stalls the Germans for a month until massive Luftwaffe and motorized reinforcements from Army Group Center allow a decisive breakthrough and dash for Leningrad itself. Loss of Leningrad would deprive the Soviets of a major population and industrial center and give the Germans the advantage of position in any drive against Moscow from the northwest.Īrmy Group North, short of Luftwaffe support and motorized forces, is the only army group that fails to achieve a significant encirclement at any stage of its campaign. Its array of ordnance factories includes the massive Kirov Tank Works that turns out most of the heavy KV-1 and KV-2 production for the Soviet Army. Once the crown jewel of Czarist Russia, Leningrad is now the second most important city in the Soviet Union. On June 22 nd, 1941, Army Group North, the smallest of the three German army groups, drives forward into the Baltic states. ![]() Great Battles of the American Civil War. ![]()
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