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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

THE NAZIS ATTACK LENINGRAD, SEVENTY YEARS AGO

THE GERMANS 
REACH THE NEVA RIVER 
August 30, 1941 


THE NEVA RIVER 
LENINGRAD, USSR 
Now St. Petersburg, Russia, again 

Nine hundred dark days were to follow, with catastrophic casualties.  The Wehrmacht cut off the last rail connection to Leningrad on August 30, 1941, and the last land connection on September 8, 1941, which seems to be taken generally as the start of the Siege of Leningrad.  There is a new book by Anna Reid on the seventieth anniversary called LENINGRAD: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-44 (see here). 

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