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Army Group North digs in

7th October 1941: The Wehrmacht moves to trench warfare around Leningrad

Oct 07, 2021
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German soldiers from the First World War would have been familiar with the trenches and bunkers of the Leningrad front - which would soon develop along much of the Eastern front.

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