Combat Year 41: The Baltic Meat Grinder

On July 20, 1941, the German Wehrmacht tank groupings that had broken through the Stalin Line were encircled in a rear defensive line on the Western Dvina–Dnieper line, near the towns of Pärnu and Kyiv, and were defeated. The main battles took place in the Baltics, where thousands of soldiers from both sides died for every little town. In autumn and winter, the German troops began to be pushed out from Soviet territory.