The survival of the Demyansk Pocket convinced Hitler that encircled armies could always be supplied by air. That belief would prove fatal. This video shows how Demyansk became the template for ...
Led by a Danish aristocrat and backed by the SS, the Free Corps Denmark entered the frozen hell of the Demyansk Pocket in 1942—only to find themselves facing relentless Soviet resistance. What began ...
Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images In February 1942, in what was a first for them, Soviet forces surrounded a 95,000-strong German grouping in the northwest ...