| Operation: Barbarossa Leningrad 
German tanks made rapid progress through the Baltic republics and by early September 1941 Leningrad was sealed off from the Soviet "mainland". Hitler decided not to take the city by storm but to starve it into submission, and the result of the "900 Days" was the death of nearly 600,000 Leningraders. It was due to the "Road of Life" across frozen Lake Ladoga that Leningrad survived in the terrible winter of 1941-42. Leningrad was beseiged by the Germans for 880 days from August 30, 1942 to January 27, 1944. It is estimated that nearly 1.5 million people died as a result. |
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