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Hitler - 'final battle' on the Eastern front

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Hitler - 'final battle' on the Eastern front

3rd October 1941: Hitler boasts of the enormous German advance into Russia

Oct 3, 2021
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Hitler - 'final battle' on the Eastern front

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Hitler meets German troops on the Eastern Front, late August 1941

On the 2nd October Hitler had launched Operation Typhoon, intended to be the final knockout blow against Moscow. Over a million men from Army Group Center launched a a new blitzkrieg assault - the 'final battle of the year'.

The following day he was boasting to the German nation of the mag…

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