Russian Front - Winter Campaign 1941

On September 6, 1941, Hitler boasted, "Today begins the last great battle of this year!" But the Fuhrer had reckoned without the treacherous Russian weather… the mud of Autumn and the approach of "General Winter " were to become his mortal enemies.

For two more months the German armies continued to advance and win battles despite the almost continuous rain and sleet that flooded rivers, turned fields into quagmires and once dusty roods into knee-deep mud.

Tracks and wheels churned the ground into axle-deep "glue" that sucked the boots off marching troops and stuck and stalled thousands of trucks and tanks.

 

Then, on the night of 6/7 November 1941, the first frosts arrived… followed a few days later by early flurries of snow… "General Winter" had struck!