Operation Sonnenwende (ii)

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'Sonnenwende' (ii) was a German operation by General Kurt von Tippelskirch’s 4th Army within Generalfeldmarschall Ernst Busch’s (from 28 June Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model’s) Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' against partisans threatening the security of the army group’s lines of communication in the German-occupied western USSR (mid/late June 1944).