Walther von Brauchitsch
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Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch was a German Generalfeldmarschall and Commander-in-Chief of the German Army during the first two years of World War II. Born into an aristocratic milita
Brauchitsch in 1939
Hauptkadettenanstalt Groß Lichterfelde, the military academy Brauchitsch attended
Brauchitsch with Hitler in Warsaw, October 1939
Battle of Moscow
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The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and J
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…initially presiding over a series of military victories, his forces were ultimately thrown back by a massive Soviet counteroffensive in December at the Battle of Moscow, thereby causing Barbarossa to end in failure. Enraged by this defeat, Hitler fired Brauchitsch from his command of the German Army. Thereafter, he…
Soviet anti-aircraft gunners on the roof of the Hotel Moskva
German armored column advances on the Moscow front, October 1941.
Moscow women dig anti-tank trenches around their city in 1941.
Anti-tank obstacles in a Moscow street, October 1941