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Second Panzer Army

The 70th Anniversary of the Soviet Counter Attack Before Moscow

on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 20:05

Tomorrow is the 70th Anniversary of the Soviet counterattack before Moscow that put the final nail in Barbarossa' s coffin. Though the grossly overextended German army in the Soviet Union had long since been ground down to a fraction of its strength from six months prior; this counterstroke would do tremendous damage to a Wehrmacht badly positioned for defending against a strategic level counter offensive.