The Archive · 1941

Nazis Forced to Retire

The supplement states: "During seven days fighting on the western sector of the front, units of the Red Army dealt heavy blows at the enemy, and forced them to retire from fortified positions. Eighteen companies were destroyed, and 2.300 dead were left on the battlefield: eighteen tanks, 41 vehicles with em-munition, and 10 trench mortar batteries were also destroyed, "Many German soldiers were captured. Among equipment taken was 48-feld guns, 64 machine-guns, two transmission radio stations and a large number of rifles.

"On one sector in the north-west of the front, 580 German officers and men were killed, six German tanks put out of action, and three field guns and 20 machine-guns captured or destroyed."

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