The Odessa Offensive Operation, known on the German side as the Defensive battle of the 6th Army between Bug and Dniester, was an offensive operation conducted in southern Ukraine by the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front against the German 6th Army and Romanian 3rd Army of Army Group South Ukraine in late March–April 1944. It was part of the second phase of the Dnieper-Carpathian Strategic Offensive.
T-34's, with tank riders on them, advance near the Razdelnaya railway station in the vicinity of Odessa, April 1944
A unit of the 4th Guards Cavalry Corps on the march, 1 April
German soldiers march into captivity in the Odessa area, April 1944
Soviet soldiers march on the streets of Odessa on 10 April 1944.
The 6th Army was a field army of the German Army during World War II. It is widely known for its defeat by and subsequent surrender to the Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad on 2 February 1943. It committed war crimes at Babi Yar while under the command of Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau during Operation Barbarossa.
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 B05284, Walter v. Reichenau
Image: Friedrich Paulus by Johannes Hähle
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 101I 732 0118 03, Hermann Balck (cropped)
