Hitler - 'Destroy Leningrad'
18th September 1941: The new German strategy becomes apparent - the city 'must vanish from the earth's surface.'
On the 18th September the defenders of Leningrad saw the tanks of the German 4th Panzer Group being loaded on to trains, to be transported to the Moscow front. It was the first clear sign that there was not going to be a direct assault on the city.
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