![]() ![]() 12, 1941Īccording to the plans for Operation Barbarossa, Moscow was to have been captured within four months by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock’s Army Group Center. “This is not the month of May, and we are not fighting in France!” ![]() The troops in Operation Typhoon, the campaign to capture Moscow, were now so close to the outskirts of the Soviet capital that at night lead elements of the German army could see the gun flashes from Moscow’s anti-aircraft artillery defenses. In the center, German troop advances were still advancing. In the south, German troops were in the Crimea and in defensive positions outside of Rostov. In the north, Leningrad was isolated and under siege. The map of the Eastern Front in Adolf Hitler’s bunker, the Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair), in Rastenburg, East Prussia, revealed the breathtaking extent of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union launched in June 1941.
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