Hitler's European crusaders near Leningrad. Journal Methodius Division SS policeman near Leningrad map

The division was formed in October 1939 on the basis of the Ordnungspolizei and the Allgemeine-SS reserve. At first, the division was led by Lieutenant General Karl Pfeffor-Wildenbruch. At first, the division was part of the occupation forces in Poland, and then participated
in the French campaign. After the surrender of France, the division remained in the west until the start of the war with the USSR. In June 1941, the division became part of the Army Group "North" and participated in the attack on Leningrad. The division was poorly trained and equipped, so it could not reach
impressive results. In stubborn battles near Volkhov and in the region of Lake Ladoga, the division suffered heavy losses. From spring to summer 1943, the division participated in the fight against partisans in Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia). Then the division was transferred
to Yugoslavia, where the police had to fight with Tito's partisans. Both sides showed no mercy to each other. In March 1944, the division was transferred to Greece, where it again became part of the occupying forces. The division was especially "famous" in punitive operations in the Larissa region. At the end of 1944, the division was sent to Hungary, where it participated in defensive battles. Then the division moved further north.
In the battle for Danzig (Gdansk), the division suffered heavy losses and was withdrawn to Berlin, where it was finally defeated.
The last commander of the division was the veteran Arnhem SS Standartenführer Walter Harzer.

SS-Polizei-Grenadier-Division

The 35th SS Police Division was one of many "divisions" formed at the very end of the war. The formation of the division began in February 1945
on the basis of the Dresden police school and the SS Junker school in Braunschweig. In terms of numbers, the division was inferior to a full-blooded regiment. In the last weeks of the war, the division
fought on the Eastern Front in the Nissa area and was surrounded by units
Red Army in May 1945 near Prague.
It is widely believed that the police divisions had a low fighting capacity. Indeed, the police divisions could never be compared in terms of equipment and training with such elite SS divisions as the LSSAH or "Das Reich" and corresponded in these indicators rather to ordinary Wehrmacht infantry divisions. Nevertheless, the 4th SS police division fought quite successfully and 15 soldiers of its members were awarded the Knight's Cross.

Uniforms and insignia
The personnel of the SS police division at first wore a uniform consisting of both SS and police uniforms. Standard SS or army gray uniform
worn with an SS eagle on the left sleeve.
Shoulder straps had a green piping. Buttonholes - army or police sample - had a piping of the same color as shoulder straps. In February 1942, the division finally became part of the SS troops, so the personnel of the division began to wear exclusively SS insignia.
Hats, formerly of the police type, were also replaced by the headgear used by the SS troops.
The personnel of the police division wore a cuff tape. Initially, it was a black viscose ribbon with a piping woven with silver thread and an emblem - a wreath with an eagle and a swastika. In December 1942, a new ribbon appeared, with the inscription "SS-Polizei Division". The letters were
embroidered with silver thread by machine (private and non-commissioned officers) or by hand (officers). Since 1943, the machine-made ribbon has been worn by all military personnel, regardless of rank. However, this can be seen from photographs taken at different times, many soldiers and officers of the division did not wear any cuff tapes.

SS candidates who served in the police wore runes embroidered with silver thread on a gray base. SS” on the left breast pocket of the tunic. During the early years of the division, military personnel often wore police insignia in combination with a runic patch.

Little is known of reliable information about the uniform and insignia used in the Italian parts of the SS, even less is known about the Italian field
gendarmerie. Photographs show that soldiers from the 29. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS wore ragtag Italian uniforms with Italian and SS insignia. Initially, Italian insignia was embroidered over a red field, then the color of the field
changed to black. At least one copy of the Italian gendarme gorget has survived to this day. It is generally similar to the German model, only the SS
the eagle clutches in its paws not a swastika, but lictor rods and an ax, and “Gendarmeria” is written on the scroll.

N. Prokofiev || « » No. 209, September 5, 1942

Defenders of Stalingrad and the North Caucasus! Steadfastly, selflessly fight for every frontier, for every position. In stubborn battles, increase the losses of the Germans, mercilessly exterminate the Nazi invaders!

In the villages of the Kuban, on the rich Cossack land, the Nazi beast is rampaging. The Germans and their henchmen rob, rape, and shoot civilians.

The village of Mayevskaya was occupied by Romanian troops. Fighting continued on the outskirts. At night, during a skirmish, not far from the village, our scouts killed three Romanian soldiers. Attributing this to the inhabitants of the village, the Romanians committed a savage reprisal the next day. All the women, old people, and children who remained in Mayevskaya were driven to the square and beaten, and then 150 people were shot.

Witnesses and victims of the German revelry speak of the suffering and abuse to which the civilian population is subjected. The other day a group of our scouts under the command of Senior Lieutenant Yegorov penetrated into the village of Slavyanskaya occupied by the enemy. The scouts talked with a local resident comrade. WITH.

Early in the morning the Germans came to the village, he said. - They immediately drove all the inhabitants into the field and began to rob. They stripped naked, took away the dress, money, watches, rings. When I returned home and looked into the yard, my legs buckled: the doors in the hut were broken, things were scattered, the dishes were broken. All clothes, up to children's diapers, were taken away by robbers. Everything that I made with my own hands, ...

In the evening, a drunken amusement began in the village. Soldiers raped girls, beat old men. One drunken mob broke into the house of the collective farmer Pashkova. In front of her mother, soldiers brutally beat and raped her daughter Maria. Then they abused their mother.

Three tankmen, vols. Cherednichenko, Serdyuchenko and Obukhov, who remained in the village of Krymskaya for some time after it was occupied by the Germans, had a chance to see with their own eyes a picture of fascist robbery.

When we got out through the backyards to the outskirts of the village, - the tankers say, - strong firing from machine guns rose in the streets. We hid under the fence and watched. We see the Germans running around the village and scribbling from machine guns at pigs, at geese. The hunt went on for several hours. Then the Germans rolled barrels of wine out of the collective farm cellar, and a drunken pogrom began. The soldiers dragged women out of the huts, caught women in the street and immediately raped them. One girl was raped in turn.

The Germans subject captured wounded Red Army soldiers to inhuman torture. Near one settlement, our scouts found 14 corpses of brutally torn and burned soldiers. Many had their arms and legs cut off, their bellies torn open, their eyes gouged out, and their ears cut off.

Several times during the fighting, the Semenovsky farm changed hands. When the division of Comrade Libavin took possession of the farm for the last time, our soldiers found the corpse of the Red Army soldier Fimchuk Taras Yakovlevich in the garden. He was suspended by his feet from a tree. 36 bullet wounds and many stab wounds were found on the corpse.

In another battle, the Nazis captured the wounded Red Army soldiers Divin and Solomko. The fighters were taken to the headquarters of the German unit, where they were interrogated. Hitler's executioners beat the wounded with rubber sticks, tortured with red-hot iron. The soldiers endured the torture in silence. At night, Solomko managed to escape and hide in the attic of a neighboring house, from where he saw how early in the morning German soldiers dragged Divin out of the basement. He could no longer stand on his feet and fell. The Nazis began to trample on his boots. Soon the body of the unfortunate fighter turned into a piece of bloodied meat. The remains of a Soviet soldier.

Solomko managed to escape from fascist captivity, to get to our unit. Here he told this terrible story. Solomko's health, after several hours of being in fascist captivity, is forever undermined: he incessantly spitting up blood.

The Hitlerite bastards, who set themselves the goal of exterminating the Soviet people, seizing our wealth, the fruits of our labors, speak frankly about this in. SS sergeant-major Heinrich Merike writes to his wife Else in Bielefeld: “These people are. It is impossible to teach him obedience. Russians must be exterminated along with their wives and children. I do that whenever I can. Everything must be taken away from the Russians and turned into vagabonds, who, like game, will be hunted by the Germans.

Intoxicated with temporary successes, robbers and murderers want to hunt down the Soviet people. They did not succeed in the previously occupied regions, and they will not succeed in the Kuban either. // Major N. Prokofiev.
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("Red Star", USSR)
* ("Red Star", USSR)*
I. Ehrenburg: * ("Red Star", USSR)

WESTERN FRONT. German stronghold, defeated by the N Guards mortar unit.

A snapshot of our special photocorr. G. Homzora.

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Details of the battle of thirty-three heroes

SERVICE ARMY, 4 September. (by telegraph). The units operating southwest of Stalingrad spread the news of the remarkable feat of 33 brave Soviet soldiers who withstood the onslaught of 70 fascist tanks accompanied by infantry and inflicted a severe defeat on the enemy. Here are the details of this exceptional fight.

In one area, the Germans managed to break into our defenses at the cost of heavy losses. 70 enemy tanks, along with infantry, rushed to a group of armor-piercers, led by deputy political officer Kovalev. Tanks moved in a wall in a narrow area. A string of machine guns followed by fascist infantrymen. The Germans were sure that they would pass, but they miscalculated. A handful of armor-piercers blocked the path of the enemy.

Carefully disguised, our fighters were waiting for the approach of the Germans. Faithful to the traditions of the heroic defenders of Tsaritsyn during the years of the civil war, these people decided to fight to the last bullet, just not to miss the enemy tanks.

Shoot only on command, save ammo, - said Kovalev.

Here is the command. From the very first shots from anti-tank guns, several enemy vehicles caught fire. But the rest are climbing forward, trying to get through the trenches. And the closer the tanks, the more fiercely the courageous defenders of Stalingrad fight.

Kovalev orders to prepare incendiary bottles. When the first tank crossed the trench, covering the soldiers with earth, the Red Army soldier Semyon Kalita set it on fire with a bottle. The battle became even more fierce, but not a single Red Army soldier flinched. Everyone fought like heroes, destroying tanks with Molotov cocktails, grenades, accurate fire from anti-tank rifles, hitting enemy infantry with handgun fire, well-aimed throws of grenades.

Junior Sergeant Vladimir Paskhalny throws three bottles one after another. Three more tanks went up in flames. Now there are already thirteen of them. More than three dozen Germans were killed near them. The enemy abandoned his attack and turned back.

But the armor-piercers did not calm down. They expected a new attack and were not mistaken. The Nazis this time threw the tanks into the flank. The Nazi armored vehicles one after another rushed to the trench, which was occupied ten meters from the armor-piercers by five signalmen with the junior political instructor Evstifeev at the head. Evstifeev ran to a nearby trench, took an anti-tank rifle and 20 rounds of ammunition. He opened fire. Six shots from an anti-tank rifle - and four German tanks are disabled. Signalers were supported by Kovalev's armor-piercers. They now beat the Germans in the flank. Beaten without a miss, to death.

Every minute there were fewer enemy tanks left, and the ranks of the fascist infantry were thinning out. Red Army soldiers Mikhail Mishalev and Sergey Proshin, Lieutenant Georgy Strelkov, destroyed two tanks each, Red Army soldiers Ivan Ryazhentsev and Nikolai Pyanochkin, foreman Dmitry Pukazov, senior sergeant Pyotr Pochetalkin, Red Army soldier Ivan Timofeev and others set fire to one each.

Smoke from burning cars shrouded the steppe. But the Nazis pressed on. Our fighters ran out of bullets, and the tanks crawled to the trenches. Then the armor-piercers again took up the bottles, anti-tank grenades and again repulsed the enemy.

The Germans never reached their goal. Having lost 27 tanks, several dozen soldiers and officers, they withdrew. 33 Soviet heroes fulfilled their military duty, did not let the enemy through. They fought so skillfully that they had almost no casualties. // Battalion Commissar I.Artamonov.

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SS police division near Leningrad

Last fall, the German command threw near Leningrad from "revealed bandits and cutthroats. It was they, the SS men, who were supposed to strike at Leningrad, capture it, pour blood over its beautiful squares and streets. For this, Hitler assigned his" black guard ". Among them other divisions near Leningrad, the so-called "Paris Police Division of the SS" was thrown.

Recruited at one time from jailers, gendarmes and policemen, this division entered Paris and shot its civilians there. In German, this is called "to carry out garrison service." Since then, the division has received its name.

Even at home, the Berlin policemen had trained their hands in reprisals against the population, and in Paris they were even more diligently engaged in the same habitual business. In addition, every day some company, polished to a shine and well-trained, went to the parade. The police marched through the central squares of Paris to intimidate the Parisians, once again emphasizing the power of the fascist army over the enslaved French.

And so, when the war with the Soviet Union began, this selected Nazi beast was taken from Paris and thrown near Leningrad. The division, led by its shoulder master, police general Mülferstedt, arrived near Luga in July. It was announced to the fascist thugs on the way that they were going to Leningrad “to carry out garrison service.” These robbers, for the most part members of the fascist party, hoped to easily enter the city. They imagined rich Leningrad apartments, Russian wines and delicacies. More On July 2, Mülferstedt announced to his soldiers that "the path to Leningrad is clear, and the issue of the division's entry into this city will be decided in the coming days."

But the police general did not wait for the desired day. The division got stuck near Luga. Here, instead of "garrison service", the policemen were thrown into battle, and their leader, Mülferstedt, soon died from a Russian shell. Having lost 60 percent of their personnel and having lost their former gloss, the police stood dejectedly under the walls of the city, expecting that it would soon fall anyway.

From Soviet artillery and sniper fire, the SS men suffered heavy losses near Leningrad. New reinforcements arrived, specially trained in the reserve SS police battalions. It was all the same robbers and marauders who went through the school of robbery in the occupied countries of Europe, as can be judged by the prisoners captured by our units. Such, for example, is Oskar Biller, who has been in a fascist organization since he was ten years old; such is Corporal Helmut Kalzbach, a policeman since November 1940, who managed to visit France, Holland, and Poland.

In April of this year, the division, with the exception of special units, was transferred to the Volkhov Front. In the spring battles, she was thoroughly battered, lost more than a regiment, after which she was taken to the rear. And now, in August, she reappeared near Leningrad. In the battles for one settlement, our N unit utterly defeated the 2nd regiment of the SS police division.

Among the beaten policemen, there are almost no longer those who served in Paris. Those have long been rotting in the ground near Leningrad, in the Volkhov forests and swamps. Now the division has the so-called "inferior SS", or, in German, "ersatz". Recently, a replenishment has arrived here, entirely consisting of penal SS men. These are soldiers who were serving sentences in the camps for theft. Unlike "full-fledged SS", they do not have the right to wear division insignia on their buttonholes until they atone for their guilt at the front. These bandits failed to fight. In the very first battle, all the “penal replenishment” that arrived in the 3rd regiment of the SS division. was completely wiped out.

The Nazi command is seriously concerned about the large losses among the soldiers and officers of the SS units and is thinking about how to replenish these losses. Our fighters recently captured one curious document: "Instructions on the admission to the SS of persons belonging to the police." SS Obergruppenführer and Police General von Oberstein writes: “For transfer to the SS, I propose to nominate the following officers:

1. Returned from service from police divisions that did not previously belong to the SS;

4. Officers who served in the field gendarmerie since the beginning of the war and received military distinctions.

Hitler seeks means to keep his brigands alive. The fighters of the Leningrad Front will be able to put these "proven" killers and robbers into the ground.

Recently, a dead SS man was found with . Here is what the scoundrel policeman wrote to his wife: “Russians should not be considered people at all. These are pets that must be made to work for us. They need to be trained like animals. And for this it is necessary to intimidate them so that they come to terms with their fate and humbly, like bulls, bear the yoke of slavery on their necks.

This narrow-minded Nazi executioner got what he deserved near Leningrad, along with thousands of other bandits like him. // Battalion Commissar W. Heistwer. LENINGRAD FRONT.

AIR BATTLE ON THE APPROACHES TO LENINGRAD

ACTIVE ARMY. 4 September. (Special correspondent TASS). Yesterday, air battles unfolded on the outskirts of Leningrad. A group of German bombers, guarded by fighters, tried to break through to the city. Enemy planes were met by our aircraft and powerful fire from anti-aircraft batteries. Anti-aircraft gunners acted exemplary, destroying 5 enemy aircraft.

The pilots of the N-sky air division imposed four air battles on the enemy. After six attacks, our fighters shot down 3 Nazi bombers. A well-organized air defense, the courageous actions of Soviet pilots and anti-aircraft gunners blocked the enemy's path. Having lost 4 Messerschmitts and 4 Junkers, the Nazis retreated.

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SITUATION IN FINLAND
Fascist newspaper alarmed by the behavior of the population

STOCKHOLM, 4 September. (TASS). The Finnish fascist newspaper Ayan Suunta published a report eloquently speaking about the mood of the masses of the people in Finland. The newspaper writes that “in one of the districts of the province there is a grave of two Soviet pilots, whose plane was shot down in the winter. Women living in this area are doing their best to turn this grave into a grave of heroes. It always has fresh flowers. But look at the mass grave of Finnish soldiers killed in the winter war lying on the other side of the road. Women are not at all interested in this grave. They never bring flowers there." The newspaper expresses indignation at such behavior of the population and suggests that the authorities "take a little interest in this case and let these women understand what such behavior can lead to."

The same newspaper reports that “in another area, women, old men and teenagers are constantly circling around the camp of Russian prisoners of war located there now. They offer the prisoners bread and other products from their rations.” “We also know,” the newspaper writes, “that imprisoned members of the “Group of Six” (six opposition Sejm deputies imprisoned for speaking out against the government's pro-German policies) are constantly receiving food packages. Things like this need to be stopped immediately."

Huge loss of life in Finland
Recognition of Hitler's newspaper

STOCKHOLM, 4 September. (TASS). Hitler's newspaper "Völkischer Beobachter" published an article by its correspondent, who visited Finland and the regions of the Karelian-Finnish SSR occupied by the Finnish-fascist troops. The author acknowledges that Finland "suffered enormous losses in the war" and that as a result of this, she "suffers more than all other countries of Europe from a lack of people."

Hitler's scribbler states that Finland cannot compensate for this lack of people at the expense of the population of the occupied Soviet regions, since it treats the invaders with implacable hatred. The Finnish authorities, soldiers and officers, the article says, "are forced to carefully isolate themselves from the local population, because they are involved in the partisan movement and are suspected of sabotage." The author acknowledges that entire regions in the occupied territory are essentially "in Soviet hands". These are partisan areas where the occupiers are afraid to poke their noses. The author reports that in connection with this situation, the Finnish authorities decided “to place the population of cities in the occupied areas in concentration camps, and then send to the tundra everyone who turns out to be unsuitable for assimilation” (i.e., who does not submit to the invaders).
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("Time", USA)
("Pravda", USSR)
("Pravda", USSR)

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IN THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS. Nurse T. Naslednikova provides first aid to a wounded lieutenant.

A snapshot of our special photocorr. V.Temin

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From the Soviet Information Bureau

Arthur M., a soldier of the 330th regiment of the 183rd German infantry division, who voluntarily surrendered, said: “Recently, the platoon commanders of our company told the soldiers that dugouts should be prepared for the coming winter. Among the soldiers who spent the previous winter in Russia, this order caused a great murmur. After all, until very recently, officers inspired us that the successes of the German army in the south would lead to a speedy end to the war. Soldiers think with horror about the upcoming winter campaign. Most of them believe that Germany ".

The murdered German lieutenant Heinz Schulz found a letter from Brentau (near Danzig) from his friend Gertrude. In the letter she writes: “Yesterday I had Elsa Werner from Schachau. They also had terrible things happen. The Reds were throwing heavy bombs. The shipyards burned for a long time. Not a single whole glass remained in Shahau. Elsa is afraid to go back there. People think that they need to go somewhere, but where? Elsa calls me to Straubing. Advise what to do - should I go? After all, they can either go there or Tommy. We just got lost…”

Residents of the village of Bolshoy Nakhodovo, Kalinin Region, now liberated from the Nazi invaders, Mikhail Shvedov, Tatyana Gromova and others told about how. “The Nazis ruled our village for more than ten months. They took away all the bread, potatoes, livestock and poultry from the villagers. There was a terrible famine. Many peasants died of starvation. My heart broke when. Dozens of collective farmers were tortured and shot by Nazi executioners. Retreating under the blows of the Red Army, the German thugs completely destroyed the village. They burned down 90 residential houses of collective farmers.”

The captured non-commissioned officer of the 12th company of the 176th regiment of the 61st German infantry division, Jacob Rogachnik, said: “Recently, the 176th regiment has been hit by Russians and. I arrived at the front with the 2nd battalion of the 805th reserve regiment. We were urgently transferred to the aid of the 176th regiment. In three days of fighting, we lost 250 people killed and wounded, i.e. almost half of the entire battalion. To save the situation, the command sent all the soldiers of the rear service to the front line. The soldiers, who experienced the force of the blows of the Russians, lost hope of getting out of this damned war alive. Soldiers who recently arrived from Germany said that in Braunsburg, three soldiers who had recovered from their wounds, having learned that they were again being sent to Russia, hanged themselves on the same day.
* ("Pravda", USSR)

1. Returned from service from police divisions that did not previously belong to the SS;

4. Officers who served in the field gendarmerie since the beginning of the war and received military distinctions.

Hitler seeks means to keep his brigands alive. The fighters of the Leningrad Front will be able to put these "proven" killers and robbers into the ground.

Recently, an unsent letter to his homeland was found on a murdered SS man. Here is what the scoundrel policeman wrote to his wife: “Russians should not be considered people at all. These are pets that must be made to work for us. They need to be trained like animals. And for this it is necessary to intimidate them so that they come to terms with their fate and humbly, like bulls, bear the yoke of slavery on their necks.

This narrow-minded Nazi executioner got what he deserved near Leningrad, along with thousands of other bandits like him. || Battalion CommissarW. Heistwer. LENINGRAD FRONT.

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Huge loss of life in Finland
Recognition of Hitler's newspaper

I continue the theme of the album of the Polizei division. Previous records:

This part will be devoted to the adventures of policemen in Russia.

At first, as in France, in the war with the USSR, the division sat in the rear of the Sever GA. On June 30, the division crossed the Lithuanian border and moved east.

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1. The division is moving through a settlement in Lithuania. In the foreground is an Audi Front 225 cabriolet, followed by a Mercedes-Benz L 3000 with a trailer full of bicycles. June 30, 1941.

UPD: This is a small town of Luksiai, between the border and Kaunas. Completely confirms the date, 06/30/1941.

UPD: This is a small town of Luksiai.

3. Another photo of this locality. In the frame of the Lutheran church. Looked for one, didn't find it. Can anyone help? A Borgward Type 3t Diesel G.W. is on the road. June 30, 1941.

UPD: in the comments of a colleague gedas suggested what kind of settlement it was. This is Luksiai, in the photo is the Church of St. Joseph. Photos today:

5. The caption to the photo says that this is a crossing over the Western Dvina. Drissa area (Verhnedvinsk). July 14, 1941.

6. Another photo of the crossing over the Western Dvina. PAK-36 anti-tank guns approach the bridge, apparently from the Polizei-Panzerabwehr-Abteilung. July 14, 1941.

7. The division was not motorized, so the main part stomped east on foot or rode bicycles. In late June - early July 1941, it rained in the Baltic states, which we see in the photo. Division column on muddy road. Lithuania, July 1941.

8. The column of the division on the muddy road. Lithuania, July 1941.

9. At a halt. Lithuania, July 1941.

10. At a halt. Lithuania, July 1941.

11. Halt by the road in the Baltics. There are heaps of cobblestones next to the road, which indicates that the road was going to be paved. July 1941.

12. At the field kitchen. Lithuania, 4/7/1941.

13. At a halt. Lithuania, July 1941.

15. In a Lithuanian village. July 1941.

16. On vacation in Drusvyaty. 8/7/1941

18. Roads of the Baltic States. July 1941.

19. Destroyed Opochka (now Pskov region). 20.7.1941.

20. Neighborhood of Opochka. 20.7.1941.

21. To Leningrad. Leningrad highway. July 1941

22. Leningrad highway. July 1941.

23. Leningrad highway. A Mercedes-Benz L 3000 is driving along the road.
July 1941.

24. Leningrad highway. July 1941.

25. Leningrad highway. July 1941.

26. Leningrad highway. July 1941.

27. KV-2 from the 6th tank regiment of the 3rd tank division of the 1st mechanized corps, shot down on the northern outskirts of the Island on July 5, 1941. The photo was taken on 24/07/1941.

28. Road sign at the airfield Crosses in Pskov. July 1941.

29. Abandoned 76-mm divisional gun model 1902/30. July 1941.

30. Loose BT-7. Possibly a tank from the 3rd Panzer Division. July 1941.

31. At the field kitchen. Russia, July 1941.

32. Dead Red Army soldiers. Apparently somewhere near Luga. Photo signed July 1941.

On August 1, 1941, the division concentrated in the Luga area. Her task was to take Luga, moving along the Pskov-Leningrad railway. The division could not take Luga head-on. Then she participated in the liquidation of the Luga pocket north of Luga.

33. Shelling of a village near Luga. August 1941.

34 Shelling of a village near Luga. August 1941.

35. The village is on fire. Luga region. August 1941.

36. The village is on fire. Luga region. August 1941.

37. Our heroes sat in the garden. Luga region. August 1941.

38. "Ahead of the position of the Bolsheviks!". Luga region. August 1941

39. In battle. Luga region. August 1941.

40. In battle. Luga region. August 1941.

41. Captured positions of the Red Army. August 1941.

42. Captured positions of the Red Army. August 1941.

43. Captured positions of the Red Army. August 1941.

44. After the fight. Wounded soldiers were taken prisoner. August 1941.

45. After the fight. Wounded soldiers were taken prisoner. August 1941.

46. After the fight. August 1941.

47. On the captured positions. Behind him is an SVT rifle stuck into the ground. This is how the Germans marked the killed enemies in the field. 13/8/1941.

48. On the captured positions. Letter to the Fatherland. 13/8/1941.

49. On the captured positions. Letter to the Fatherland. 13/8/1941.

50. After the fight. August 1941.

51. Daily losses during the assault on this position. An interesting moment, there are crosses on the graves, and only one toten rune for all. Here are the SS for you. August 1941.

52. 18 crosses inside the fence and for some reason three behind it. ??? 18 members of the SS, but three are not? August 1941.

53. In the Luga forests. The front one has already got hold of a trophy, a SVT rifle. August 1941.

54. In the Luga forests. August 1941.

55. Crossing the river. Luga region. August 1941.

56. Luga frontier. Exploded bridge. The entrance to it is covered with an anti-tank ditch. Greetings from the inhabitants of Leningrad. August 1941.

57. Luga frontier. SOT (hiding firing point). August 1941.

58. Luga frontier. SOT (hiding firing point). August 1941.

59. After the failure of the attempt to take Luga head-on, the Polizei division started a detour. In the Luga swamps. August 1941.

60. In the Luga forests. August 1941.

61. In the Luga forests. August 1941.

62. In the Luga forests. August 1941.

63. In the Luga forests. August 1941.

64. In the Luga forests. August 1941.

65. In the Luga forests. Radio operator at work. August 1941.

66. In the Luga forests. August 1941.

67. In the Luga forests. August 1941.

68. Meadows taken. Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Luga. 24.8.1941.

69. Fights in the Luga pocket. Captured Red Army soldiers. September 1941.
Somewhere here the hero of this post of mine was captured.

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