For educational purposes
"The Forgotten Soldiers of the Russian Campaign"
This is how the soldiers in Army Group North described their war in Russia.
June 1941 saw Hitler launch his audacious bid to conquer Russia and his attempt to succeed where Napoleon had failed.
Army Group North swept through the Russian defences and closed in on the iconic city of Leningrad in less than two months.
So began the now infamous siege that would cost the lives of soldiers and civilians alike, and coin the phrase "the eternal war of the poor man".
Away from Leningrad a titanic struggle ensued all along the front line, including operations in and around the Baltic Sea, Norway and Finland.
While huge battles took place at Stalingrad, Kursk and Moscow, Army Group North maintained a prolonged siege at Leningrad.
Suddenly in 1944 the front exploded to life, and a desperate struggle for life and death began, during when Army Group North began the dangerous retreat back to the border of the Reich.
