ABSTRACT
The situation on the Soviet-German front was also deteriorating. In all, there were 217 enemy divisions and 20 brigades on the Soviet-German front at that period, including Hungarian, Romanian, Finnish, Slovak and Spanish troops.3 On the southern wing the Wehrmacht mounted an offensive with more than 90 divisions, causing particular alarm. On 7 June the Germans resumed the storming of Sevastopol, where stubborn resistance, having already lasted seven months, was beginning to flag. The city would fall on 4 July. The situation on other sectors of the front was similarly dismal. The fate of the 2nd Shock Army under Lieutenant-General Vlasov on the Northwestern Front was especially dire. Attempts had been made to help it break out of encirclement, and indeed, after heavy battles between on 10-19 June, a small part of the Army had managed to escape. Vlasov, however, chose to surrender himself to the Germans. The further history of the troops under his command belongs to another story.
