Generalfeldmarschall Guderian has reached the Volga River line at Vologda and stopped his troops. He has also recaptured Pedrozavodsk and captured Archangelsk in the very north. The OKW ordered Guderian to send an infantry division to Helsinki.
Armee Rommel
Generalfeldmarschall Rommel has reached the Volga River at Gorky.
Armee Hoth
Generalfeldmarschall Hoth cleaned the huge area between Moscow and Stalingrad from the last Russian resistance. Several divisions of the Red Army could not quickly enough move back to the Volga River where Generalfeldmarschall von Manstein and Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring have already blocked all bridges.
Armee Manstein and Armee Kesselring
After Stalingrad was captured in March 1945 Generalfeldmarschall von Manstein’s troops together with Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring’s troops easily reached the Volga River at Saratov, Kuybyshev and Ulyanovsk cutting off all remaining Red Army troops west of the Volga River.
Global summery
Operation Niederschlag is finished. The last attacks are done today to capture all important objectives in the east. Also on the Balkan and in England the battles against the Partisans are ending.
- Order of battle in July 1945. Red: Attacking for total victory. Orange: Capturing these cities (mainly at the Volga River) defeats the Soviet Union west of the Ural Mountains.
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Berlin – July 5 1945 – Hotel Adlon
- Reichsmarschall Friedrich von Straublitz-Lüttenrath (orange circle) is celebrating together with many of his officers from Heer, Luftwaffe and Marine the total victory in World War II.
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