Battle of Lwów (1941)

The Battle of Lwów was a World War II battle for the control over the Soviet city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) between the Red Army and the invading Wehrmacht and the hiking groups OUN.

For a list of battles fought for the city of Lwów, see Battle of Lwów (disambiguation).
Battle of Lwów
Part of the Frontier Battles in the Great Patriotic War
DateJune 22–30, 1941
Location
Lwów, UkrSSR, USSR
Result Tactical victory of the Third Reich
Belligerents
 Third Reich
OUN		  Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
Yaroslav Stetsko		 Iwan Muzyczenko
Nikołaj Diatłow
Strength
17th Army 6th Combined Arms Army

History

Protection of the city’s infrastructure was carried out by the 223rd regiment from the 13th division of the NKVD escort troops. On June 24, the 1st company of the regiment prevented the mass escape from Lvov Prison No. 1. Also, the soldiers of the regiment defended the city from the actions of looters, OUN members and nazi saboteurs. From June 29 to June 30, 1941, the regiment’s battalion covered the withdrawal of units of the 6th army from Lviv and then departed along the route Sykhov-Bóbrka-Rohatyn-Kozova-Tarnopol under the direct influence of the Luftwaffe.

Immediately after the departure of the Red Army, NKVD troops and border guards, the massacre of Lviv professors[1] and Lviv pogrom[2] was organized, and then the ghetto and concentration camps began to form under the leadership of the German administration by the Ukrainian auxiliary police, formed from the OUN marching groups.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

The city was liberated from the Nazis three years later, in the summer of 1944, during the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive.[15]

See also

References
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