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The exhausting march East

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The exhausting march East

26th September 1941: German infantryman describes living conditions in Russia

Sep 26, 2021
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The German infantryman’s experience of the war was little different from Napoleon’s troops invading Russia over a century earlier as regards transport - theirs was an endless march. A column of German troops from the 44th Engineering Battalion in Kovno (now Kaunas) in Lithuania, 1941.

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