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→Battle of Kharkov
The army group sent south engaged the ill-prepared, ill-equipped Red Army forces at [[Kharkov]]. 600,000 Red Army troops were quickly encircled and taken prisoner without much of a fight. Hitler declared it, "the greatest military victory of all time."
The army group sent south engaged the ill-prepared, ill-equipped Red Army forces at [[Kharkov]]. 600,000 Red Army troops were quickly encircled and taken prisoner without much of a fight. Hitler declared it, "the greatest military victory of all time."
Most of the Russian POWs became slave labor in German POWs camps; some Ukrainian POWs were recruited into German fighting units in both eastern Europe where they committed atrocities against the civilian population, and the Western Front to guard the Atlantic Wall in advance of and, and during, the [[Normandy Invasion]].
===Siege of Leningrad===
===Siege of Leningrad===