Answer: A. Siege of Leningrad Starting in September 1941, German Army Group North surrounded the city from the South while the Finns cut the city off from the North. In January 1943 the Soviets opened a narrow land corridor but it wasn't until January 1944 that the siege was lifted, 872 days after it began. Soviet Army casualties number 1,017,881 killed, captured or missing, 2,418,185 wounded or sick and over a million civilian casualties during the siege and evacuations. German Army casualties numbered 579,985. |