October 1941 German troops capture a soviet strongpoint during
Operation Typhoon.
The first act of Operation Typhoon had been played out. Some 663,000
prisoners had been taken, and 1242 tanks and 5412 guns destroyed or
captured. Only three weeks after the battle of Kiev, when half a dozen
Soviet Armies of Budennyy's Army Group had been crushed in the south
and more than 665,000 Soviet troops taken prisoner, another vast
fighting force of nine Armies with 70 to 80 divisions and brigades had
now been annihilated on the Central Front.
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