Siege of Odessa

Between 80,000 and 90,000 Jews remained in Odessa after the Romanian occupation.Odessa became the administrative seat of Transnistria (the ar… As Soviet forces in Odessa fought on to the last, the January Uprising Mechanical Plant within the city retained some of its production facilities that allowed for plant workers to, at the very least, enact repairs on returning, damaged Red Army tanks. The Soviets had decided that the garrison could better be used defending the Crimean port, for if it fell, Odessa could not be supplied. Later, other fighters reinforced the defenders, as did an Il-2 squadron (42 OShAE). Air support was provided by the 69th IAP, two seaplane squadrons and one bomber squadron.

It was done by Romanian forces and the German Army's (Wehrmacht Heer) 11th Army (11. In total some 34,500 men and 240 artillery gunss. In August 1941, Romanian troops set siege to Odessa. On 27 July 1941, Hitler sent a letter to General Antonescu in which he requested further cooperation of the Romanian troops beyond the Dniester River, and granted the Romanians administration of the territory between the Dniester and the Bug rivers. The siege would last from August 8th until October 16th, 1941.

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis allies, including Romania, invaded the Soviet Union. In fact the Romanian Third Army had already crossed the Dniester on 17 July.Lieutenant-general Nicolae Ciupercă's Fourth Army commenced the … Bombers from Cri… The city surrendered on October 16, 1941. The Odessa massacre was the mass murder of the Jewish population of Odessa and surrounding towns in the Transnistria Governorate during the autumn of 1941 and the winter of 1942 while it was under Romanian control..

Antonescu accepted on 31 July. This week, seventy years ago, the siege of Odessa ended when the Soviet Black Sea Fleet evacuated the garrison, and some civilians, to Sevastopol. The Siege of Edessa took place from November 28 to December 24, 1144, resulting in the fall of the capital of the crusader County of Edessa to Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo.

The Siege of Odessa was a siege battle during World War II.It was part of the Eastern Front area of operations in 1941. At least half of the city's Jewish population had fled Odessa before Axis troops surrounded the city. Contents[show] Background The County of Edessa was the first of the crusader states to be established during and after the First Crusade. The garrison that initially defended Odessa were made up of the 25th and 95th Rifle Divisions, the 9th Cavalry Division, the 421st Marine Division, the 54th Rifle Regiment and an NKVD Regiment.