The Germans were the only ones around Leningrad. The Finns came in on what they called "The Continuation War" from the "Winter War" of 1939-40. But they only fought to regain the territory they had been forced to cede to the Soviets. Never around Leningrad.
The Hungarians fought on the southern Eastern Front in Ukraine with the Germans, a…
The Germans were the only ones around Leningrad. The Finns came in on what they called "The Continuation War" from the "Winter War" of 1939-40. But they only fought to regain the territory they had been forced to cede to the Soviets. Never around Leningrad.
The Hungarians fought on the southern Eastern Front in Ukraine with the Germans, as did the Romanians. But Kyiv's nowhere near Leningrad.
Soldiers from the Baltic States the Soviets had occupied in 1940 did fight with the Waffen SS, (which was organizing "Europeans" into the force - Belgians, Dutch, the Baltics, etc.) and some of them could have been around Leningrad, so Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - by really stretching things, he could say "NATO countries" were involved in the siege of Leningrad. But if they composed 1 percent of the troops there, that would be stretching it.
The Germans were the only ones around Leningrad. The Finns came in on what they called "The Continuation War" from the "Winter War" of 1939-40. But they only fought to regain the territory they had been forced to cede to the Soviets. Never around Leningrad.
The Hungarians fought on the southern Eastern Front in Ukraine with the Germans, as did the Romanians. But Kyiv's nowhere near Leningrad.
Soldiers from the Baltic States the Soviets had occupied in 1940 did fight with the Waffen SS, (which was organizing "Europeans" into the force - Belgians, Dutch, the Baltics, etc.) and some of them could have been around Leningrad, so Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - by really stretching things, he could say "NATO countries" were involved in the siege of Leningrad. But if they composed 1 percent of the troops there, that would be stretching it.
The Russians bombed Babi Yar.
I wasn't aware of that. Given the anti-Semitism of the Soviets, following the traditional Russian attitude, it doesn't surprise me.