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This study deals with Army Group North, deployed by the German Wehrmacht in World War II, with a focus from 1943 onwards. At the start of the war against the Soviet Union, during Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, its three armies were supposed to, to put it simply, advance northeast along the Baltic Sea through the Baltic states towards Leningrad and, in conjunction with Finnish units coming from the north, conquer this city. But this then turned into the blockade of Leningrad, which lasted almost 900 days and resulted in incredibly high casualties, particularly among the civilian population. Army Group North had not been at the center of events for a while, but that changed on the Eastern Front from January 1944. From then on, figuratively speaking, until the surrender in May 1945, it had not had a moment's peace.