Battle for Moscow (Hitler's World)

The Battle for Moscow was an enormous military confrontation between the huge garrison of German occupation forces and massive Soviet assault divisions in the summer 1946. The Soviet high command had managed to pour full effort into rebuilding the Soviet military might after the humilating defeats of 1945, since then the Soviet army engaged in guerrilla warfare against Axis forces. The Russian major cities of Moscow, Stalingrad and Leningrad were of vital importance not just to the generals of the Reich but to Hitler, the Fuhrer saw the cities as holding lines between European and Asian Russia, if these cities fell then Stalin would be able to launch attacks into the expanding Third Reich directly. Thereforce Hitler very strongly reinforced these cities and especially Moscow