Red Army attack on German lines

6 September 1941: Hans Roth describes being in the forward trench

Russian refugees from a collective farm retreat as a German motorised column advances, summer 1941.

On the Eastern front as the main thrust of the German Panzer armies moved south into the Ukraine, other German units moved onto the defensive. Parts of the front had become quite static, where trench warfare developed. Nevertheless with crude tactics, incr…