1941 Soviet Union, Mud Period, Taking of Bryansk, Operation Taifun, rare private footage

This time travel takes us to Eastern Europe in 1941, where a bloody and criminal war is raging with heavy losses. It is autumn, and the advance of the German Wehrmacht is stalled. The roads are muddy. In the Russian quagmire, German hopes for a quick victory against the Soviet Union fade. Rare private film footage of a German soldier shows the difficulties of the troops. Their destination is Moscow. The supposed last attack of the Eastern Army, “Operation Taifun“, should bring the decision with two million men of the Army Group Center, according to the German strategy. By October 20, 1941, the Germans, with three armored armies, succeeded in shattering the Soviet front line, encircling another 673,000 Soviet soldiers in the encirclement battles of Vyazma and Bryansk southwest of Moscow, and finally emerging in front of Moscow , exhausted and poorly equipped against the Russian winter. #history #ww2 #waragainstrussia The film shows the advance of a Wehrmacht unit, the capture of Bryansk (Russian Брянск), So