Leningrad "Blitzkrieg" 1941-1942. Leieb V., Galder F.

Leningrad showed not only an example of the greatest stamina of its defenders, but it became a martyr, in which about 700 thousand civilians died only from a lack of food. The leadership of the Third Reich and the command of the German army, he was doomed to a blockade, unprecedented in his duration and cruelty, and Leningraders to hardships, hunger and death. A huge grouping of the Nazis near Leningrad performed police functions to kill its inhabitants with hunger, which became the main weapon of the Wehrmacht. “Our ally is hunger,” said the commander of the North Army General Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leieb. This book, based on truly unique sources, reveals a veil of secrets over the causes of the Leningrad blockade. It presents materials from the military diaries of two senior German officers-von Leieba and Colonel General Franz Galder, chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces (OKH).

daily notes of the Nazi military leaders, starting with an attack on the USSR, and a description The fights for Leningrad in 1941-1942 were carefully analyzed and supplemented by comments by the famous St. Petersburg military historian Yuri Lebedev.