The Battle of Rostov was an episode of the
Fall Blau operation, which lasted five days and pitted the 56th Soviet Army, in retreat, against the 17th German Army and
1st Panzer Army which tried to surround it.
It was a definite success for the Germans who, thanks to a "commando" action of the
Brandenburg Regiment, took the bridges over the
Don
Don, don or DON and variants may refer to:
Places
*County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON
*Don (river), a river in European Russia
*Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name
*Don, Benin, a town in Benin
*Don, Dang, a vill ...
, the
Bataysk Bridge and the dike to the south of the city and prevented the flooding of swamp, which allowed them to continue their
progress towards the Caucasus.
See also
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Battle of Rostov (1941)
The Battle of Rostov (1941) was a battle of the Eastern Front of World War II, fought around Rostov-on-Don between the Army Group South of Nazi Germany and the Southern Front of the Soviet Union.
The battle comprised three phases: the Germa ...
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Battle of Rostov (1943) Three battles of the Eastern Front of World War II around the city of Rostov-on-Don on the Sea of Azov are known as the Battle of Rostov:
*In the Battle of Rostov (1941), the German 1st Panzer Army captured the city but was driven out by the Sovie ...
– the Soviet Union recaptured the city.
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