Stalingrad Private Footage Pt 2 + 71st Infantry Div Pt 2, Army Group South, War in Ukraine

Episode 149 Open a free account and see example exclusive footage In part 2 we are embedded with our author Heinze’s unit as they cross the Soviet border and engage the enemy for the first time. Heinze would go on to earn the Iron Cross second class and would be awarded the Wound Badge. As we showed the entire front for June 21 in part 1 of this series, here we’ll show the positioning of all 3 Army Groups for June 22, the day that Barbarossa kicked off. The 71st ID spent the Winter of 1940/41 training at the Königsbrück facility in Saxony, Germany. In March of 1941 it was moved to the Gouvernement region of occupied Poland which is where the 194. IR, Heinz’s regiment, was incorporated. There the division secured a length of 25 KM between the Russian and German zones of interest defined in the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggressions pact. For the following three months, during extensive training exercises, the division became accustomed to operating with the harsh road