Battle of Moscow Archives - Remnant Earth

Bruneval Radar

Bruneval: The Clifftop Where a German Radar Stood Until 1942 Places

Vemork

Vemork: The Norwegian Power Station at the Heart of the Heavy Water War Places

Sztynort Palace

Sztynort Palace: The Masurian Lake Estate of a 20 July Plotter Places

RT-64-Radio Telescope

RT-64: The Soviet 64-Metre Radio Telescopes at Bear Lakes and Kalyazin Places

Oradour-sur-Glane

Oradour-sur-Glane: The French Village Left in Ruins as a Memorial Places

The Molotov Line

The Molotov Line: Stalin’s Unfinished Wall on the Border Places

Sorpe Dam

Sorpe Dam: The Wall the Dambusters Could Not Break Places

Operation Hydra

Operation Hydra: The Night the RAF Bombed Hitler’s Rocket Base Events

Events

Operation Typhoon: The German Drive on Moscow, 1941

In October 1941 two million Germans trapped half a million Soviet soldiers at Vyazma and pushed to within 30 km of the Kremlin. Mud, frost and a Siberian reserve stopped them.

Events

Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Invasion of the Soviet Union

On 22 June 1941, more than three million Axis troops crossed the Soviet frontier. By December a German reconnaissance unit stood 30 km from Moscow, but the war of annihilation they had begun was far from won.