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Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941–1942. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-03742-49526. Stahel, David (2015). The Battle for Moscow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107087606. Tooze, Adam (2006). The Wages of Destruction: The making and breaking of the Nazi economy. London ...
German prisoners-of-war on display during the Parade of the Vanquished in Moscow, July 1944. German officer POWs eating lunch in Krasnogorsk Special Camp No. 27, 1944.. The West German government set up a Commission headed by Erich Maschke to investigate the fate of German POWs in the war.
Map of the Soviet 1941–1942 winter counteroffensive. The winter campaign of 1941–1942 from 5 December 1941 to 7 May 1942 was the name given by Soviet military command to the period that marked the commencement of the Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation (better known as the Battle of Moscow).
Operation Kremlin (Fall Kreml in German) was a successful German deception operation against Soviet forces in May to June 1942.. The Eastern Front in May–November 1942. The Soviets were tricked by Operation Kremlin into thinking that the Germans would attack Moscow at this time, when instead they attacked in the south.
German: Fourth Army and Panzergruppe 4; 15 infantry divisions 6 panzer divisions 2 motorized infantry divisions. Soviet – front line: Western Front (cont.); 13 rifle divisions
The administrative capital was tentatively proposed as Moscow, the historical and political center of the Russian state. As the German armies were approaching the Soviet capital in the Operation Typhoon in the autumn of 1941, Hitler determined that Moscow, like Leningrad and Kiev, would be levelled and its 4 million inhabitants killed, to destroy it as a potential center of Bolshevist resistance.
Moscow allowed the Germans to produce and test their weapons on Soviet territory, while some Red Army officers attended general-staff courses in Germany. [15] The basis for this collaboration was the Treaty of Rapallo , signed between the two nations in 1922, and subsequent diplomatic interactions.
The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina ...