16th Army (Wehrmacht)
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The 16th Army was a World War II field army of the Wehrmacht.
NCOs of one of the army's penal units executing civilians, 1943
Ernst Bernhard Wilhelm Busch
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1971 035 88, Christian Hansen
Porträt Friedrich Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach
Operation Barbarossa
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Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. More than 3.8 million Axis troo
16th Army (Wehrmacht)
…16. Armee) was a World War II field army of the Wehrmacht. It took part in the Battle of France. It was then deployed with Army Group North during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. It fought its way into northern Russia where in January 1942 part of it was encircled by the Soviets near…
Clockwise from top-left: German soldiers advance through northern Russia German flamethrower crew burns down a house in the background German Panzer IV stuck in the snow with white camouflage paint Soviet Ilyushin Il-2s over German positions near Moscow Soviet POWs on the way to prison camps Soviet soldiers fire artillery
1939 German Diplomatic passport with its holder returning after the outbreak of war two years later and being evacuated on a special train out of the USSR.
Semyon Timoshenko and Georgy Zhukov in 1940
Army general (later Marshal) Zhukov speaking at a military conference in Moscow, September 1941