Unternehmen Taifun

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Unternehmen Taifun, or Operation Typhoon, was Nazi Germany’s 1941 military offensive aimed at capturing Moscow during World War II.

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Unternehmen Taifun canonical 1
Unternehmen Taifun (1941) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German military operation
World War II battle
military offensive
belligerent Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
characteristic heavy casualties on both sides
large-scale encirclement operations
commander Fedor von Bock
Heinz Guderian
Hermann Hoth
conflict World War II
country Germany
endDate 1941-12-05
followedBy Soviet counteroffensive near Moscow
front Eastern Front
hasAlias Operation Typhoon
Unternehmen Taifun (1941)
linked to: Unternehmen Taifun
historicalSignificance end of German expectation of quick victory over the Soviet Union
turning point in German advance toward Moscow
involvedUnit 2nd Panzer Army
3rd Panzer Group
linked to: 3rd Panzer Army

4th Panzer Group
Army Group Centre
Soviet Bryansk Front
Soviet Reserve Front
Soviet Western Front
location Moscow region
linked to: Moscow Oblast

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR
objective capture of Moscow
opposingCommander Georgy Zhukov
Ivan Konev
outcome halt of German advance on Moscow
partOf Eastern Front of World War II
linked to: Eastern Front

German invasion of the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
precededBy initial phase of Operation Barbarossa
reasonForFailure logistical overstretch
onset of Russian winter
stiff Soviet resistance
result German failure
Soviet defensive victory
startDate 1941-10-02
target Moscow
timePeriod November 1941
October 1941
early December 1941

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Operation Typhoon alsoKnownAs Unternehmen Taifun
Unternehmen Taifun hasAlias Unternehmen Taifun (1941)
linked to: Unternehmen Taifun