Eastern Front #63 Maykop secured but charred

The Eastern Front Week by Week · Aug 20, 2026 · 43m

Last time we spoke about the continuation of the Rzhev meatgrinder. In early August 1942, the Eastern Front boiled at once on three axes. At Stalingrad, Hoth's panzers raced north from Kotelnikovo, mauling Chuikov's scratch force and forcing a chaotic Soviet command reshuffle—Yeremenko taking a new Southeastern Front—while Paulus, defying his own timetable at Hitler's insistence, encircled the 62nd Army near Kalach. In the Caucasus, Kleist's tanks stormed toward Armavir, Stavropol, and the Kuban, seizing fuel dumps that kept the drive alive, even as SS Einsatzgruppe D began mass murdering…