Red Army Bled Hitler's Bodyguard Division at Kharkov: 4,540 Leibstandarte Casualties, 1943

Red Army Bled Hitler's Bodyguard Division at Kharkov: 4,540 Leibstandarte Casualties, 1943 In March nineteen forty-three, grenadiers of the Leibstandarte fought their way into the biggest square in Kharkov and gave it a new name. They named it after themselves. Platz der Leibstandarte. In this video: How Operation Star drove Hitler's bodyguard division out of Kharkov in February 1943, against a direct order to hold. Kurt Meyer's own words from a surrounded village, burning and out of fuel, as the Red Army closed in. The 4,540 casualties the Leibstandarte paid by March, more than one man in five of a 20,844-man division. The war crimes at Yefremovka and the Trinkler Street hospital, told through the witnesses who testified. Why the square the division renamed after itself kept that name only about five months.