The Battle of Voronezh, or First Battle of Voronezh, was a battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, fought in and around the strategically important city of Voronezh on the Don river, 450 km south
A Soviet KV-1 heavy tank destroyed near Voronezh (1942)
German soldiers in position near Voronezh, June 1942. The sergeant with binoculars is beside a soldier with the Panzerbüchse anti-tank rifle; in the background two soldiers with the MG 34 squad automatic gun.
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II who is best known for being the commander of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle ended
Battle of Voronezh (1942)
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Paulus (third from right) attending a meeting at the headquarters of Army Group South with Adolf Hitler on 1 June 1942
Paulus arriving in southern Russia, January 1942
Paulus (right) with General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach in Stalingrad, November 1942