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First German Air Raid on Moscow
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First German Air Raid on Moscow

21st July 1941: Strong anti-aircraft defences confound the raiders

Jul 21, 2021
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Soviet anti aircraft positions in Moscow. From a collection of Russian International News Agency photographs of the war that are now available.

Hitler had ordered that both Moscow and Leningrad be razed to the ground by bombers so that the Germans would not be feeding their populations over the winter. He was obviously confident that they would be occupy…

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