Siege of Leningrad
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The Siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1944. Leningrad, the co
Soviet anti-aircraft battery in Leningrad near Saint Isaac's Cathedral, 1941
German soldiers in front of burning houses and a church, near Leningrad in 1941
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb with Erich Hoepner in September 1941
Women from Leningrad digging an anti-tank ditch, July 1941
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
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Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. Leeb was a highly decorated officer in
Siege of Leningrad
…Hitler's ultimate plan was to raze Leningrad and give areas north of the Neva to the Finns. Army Group North under Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb advanced to Leningrad, its primary objective. By early August, Army Group North was seriously over-extended, having advanced on a widening front and…
Leeb in 1940
Leeb and Georg von Küchler at an observation post, 11 October 1941
Leeb during the High Command Trial