Episode 154-The Spires of Moscow

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Posted On February 15, 2016

With the mud now frozen hard, Army Group Center advances on Moscow, deciding the weak link is just to the NW of the city. This guess proves correct. As November 1941 comes to an end, the leading German units are just miles from the capital and can see the spires of the Soviet Capital. The picture show German medics working on a fellow soldier just beyond the outskirts of Moscow.

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