WORLD WAR ll ~ RUSSIAN SOLDIERS FIGHTING GERMANS ~ (6 PHOTOS) ~ c. 1941-1942

Description

Six (6) dramatic official press wartime photographs showing Russian soldiers fighting in their homeland against the invading German Army.
Five are captioned press photographs and one of the two Russian tanks looks to be a copy photograph (see scans).
The failure of Operation Barbarossa reversed the fortunes of the Third Reich. Operationally, German forces achieved significant victories and occupied some of the most important economic areas of the Soviet Union (mainly in Ukraine) and inflicted, as well as sustained, heavy casualties. Despite these early successes, the German offensive stalled in the Battle of Moscow at the end of 1941, and the subsequent Soviet winter counteroffensive pushed German troops back. The Germans had confidently expected a quick collapse of Soviet resistance as in Poland, but the Red Army absorbed the German Wehrmacht's strongest blows and bogged it down in a war of attrition for which the Germans were unprepared. The Wehrmacht's diminished forces could no longer attack along the entire Eastern Front, and the subsequent operations—such as Case Blue in 1942 and Operation Citadel in 1943—eventually failed, which resulted in the Wehrmacht's retreat and collapse.
Photographs measure 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches and are in excellent condition with no bends, tears, or creases and the images are very sharp and have strong tones with good contrast and clarity. Backs have information mentioned above.
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