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“Getting bombed by the Americans was nothing like we had seen in Russia, we...”
– Fallschirmjäger Oberjager Hans Grenzdorfer on the destructive force of American forces during the Second World War. Hans Grenzdorfer served with the 1.Fallschirmjäger Regiment and then went onto help form the heavy weapons section NCO cadre of 6.Fallschirmjäger Regiment. He had seen nearly every...
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On this day...
worldwar2center:
The Siege of Leningrad begins. On this day, the Germans had encircled Leningrad, after having roared through the Soviet Union since their initial invasion in June. The siege was finally ended on the 27th of January, 1944, almost 900 days since the siege began.
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