In early 1944 the soviet army attacked and encircled 2 German corps around Korsun, just south of Kyiv. This is the story of what happened to those two corps.<br /><br />Sources:<br />Operations of Encircled Forces, German Experiences in Russia, 1952<br />No Stalingrad on the Dnieper:the Korsun-Shevchenkovsky operation by MAJ Douglas E.Nash<br />The collapse of the German army in the East in the summer of 1944 (Volume 1) summer of 1944 (Volume 1) <br />German Air Force Airlift operations by Generalmajor a. D. Fritz Morzik<br />https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesselschlacht_von_Tscherkassy<br />Tjerkassy 44 by Niklas Zetterling och Anders Frankson<br /><br /><br />Photos and video <br />Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-090-3913-24 / Etzhold / CC-BY-SA 3.0<br />Bundesarchiv, Bild 141-1280 / CC-BY-SA 3.0<br />Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-711-0438-05A / Menzendorf / CC-BY-SA 3.0<br />Why We fight 1943<br /><br /><br />Map<br />Create with OpenStreetMap, Openstreetmap Contributers
