Suicidal Soviet assault on Waffen SS

17th September 1941: Kurt Meyer watches another futile Red Army attack

Soldiers of the Waffen SS in a captured Ukrainian village pass by a Soviet Comintern artillery tractor

As another huge German encirclement developed in the south of Russia the Red Army was becoming increasingly desperate.

In the early hours of the 17th September 1941 SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) Kurt Meyers SS reconnaissance troops approached Genitschesk [H…