SIEGE OF LENINGRAD

East Prussia, Germany • October 16, 1944 In the summer of 1944 Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany was knocked off balance by one-two punches delivered almost simul­ta­neously by the Western Allies’ inva­sion of North­western France, code­named Oper­a­tion Over­lord (June–August 1944), and the Soviet Union’s offen­sive, Oper­a­tion Bagra­tion (June–August 1944), which began with the recon­quest of Belo­russia…