New Series, those about to die only on prime video.

Let the game spagge!

Win or lose, all must fight to survive.

My son, so then you can fight.

Enter the arena of the Gladiators,

starring Anthony Hopkins.

Nothing is more important than our beloved role.

From the Director of Independence Day.

The moment is upon us.

Kill or be killed.

Those about to die, 19th of July, only on Prime Video. Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War II Podcast, Episode 477, Who Has Who Surrounded?

Last time on September 14, 1941, the two Panzer Pinsers, Guderian from the north and

Von Klais from the south, met at Loch Vista about 110 miles or 177

kilometers east of Kiev, thus closing the escape route of General

Kropanus and his men defending the city. Not that the General and the men under

him were going anywhere on the orders of Stalin.

One might wonder what's the difference between dying from a German bullet versus a Russian one?

The answer being, of course, that the Russian bullet has comrades and they may very

well visit your family. Or the loved ones may just end up as political prisoners in Siberia. Either way, the stage was set. Kiev was cut off and no one was coming to help. The trapped

men there inside would either hold out or they would not.

And though the Germans would come to believe by 1943 that the Russians were not

mere mortals, they were, some of them tried to escape this corridor.

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