The first time Adolf Hitler ventured into the captured territory of the Soviet Union was six weeks into the campaign on August 4, 1941, when he traveled to Borisov to the headquarters of Army Group Center and its commander, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock. Colonel General Heinz Guderian, commander of the Army Group’s Panzer Group 2, whose troops had spent those seven weeks slashing through the western Soviet Union, had been called to the headquarters to make a report to the Führer.
The National Interest: How one of Hitler’s greatest generals conquered Ukraine (with Panzer tanks)
An undated and unlocated picture shows German Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler saluting during a meeting of the Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth).
