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A German guard in the citadel of Kiev Fortress, 20 September 1941. The battle for Kiev itself began on 16 September with the assault of the General-Lieutenant Hans von Obstfelder XXIX Army Corps of the German 6th Army. The 71st and 296th infantry divisions were at the front of this offensive, breaking through the Soviet defensive positions.
The division was first formed in the summer of 1941 and destroyed in the Kiev pocket in the fall of that year. Reformed in February 1942, the division's second formation became a guards division for its actions in the Battles of Rzhev.
The division escaped from the Kiev pocket, and after October 1941 became part of the 21st Army, fighting in the Kursk-Belgorod area. During the 21st Army's attack in the Second Battle of Kharkov, the 297th was in a secondary sector. The division and its army were able to avoid being destroyed in the Kharkov pocket but were weakened.
A pocket is a group of combat forces that have been isolated by opposing forces from ... From June to December 1941, ... was encircled in the First Battle of Kiev.
By 1 September 1941 the 67th Rifle Corps was deployed on the line Obolon – Reymentarovka – Jades – Semenivka front to the east and began an offensive against the units of the 2nd Panzer Group. That day it was listed in the Combat composition of the Soviet Army (BSSA) as consisting of the 24th , 42nd , and 277th Rifle Divisions .
During the subsequent invasion of the Soviet Union, the 168th stood in the Lublin area in June 1941, moved to the Zhytomyr area in July, then advanced, as part of the XXXIV Army Corps, to the Kiev region in August and September. [1] There, the 168th Infantry Division took part in the Battle of Kiev of 1941.
The 289th Rifle Division (Russian: 289-я стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed twice.The division was first formed in the summer of 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and was sent to the front and destroyed in the Battle of Kiev in September.
Reinhardt subsequently led his regiment during the encirclement of Kiev, when he distinguished himself with the capture of the village of Tarassowka at the outskirts of Kiev on 20 September 1941. Due to his actions, the Germans were able to prevent a large portion of Soviet soldiers escaping the Kiev pocket and Reinhardt presumably had a key ...