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.
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Mamerki: The Army High Command’s Secret Bunker City in the Masurian Forest
Twenty kilometres from the Wolf's Lair, the German army built a hidden town of more than 200 structures. The Germans never blew it up, so the concrete is still there.
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.
The Wolf’s Lair: Hitler’s Forest Headquarters on the Eastern Front
A camouflaged bunker town in the Masurian woods, where Hitler spent more than 800 days, survived a bomb on 20 July 1944 and was blown up by his own army as the Red Army closed in.