In early 1944 the soviet army attacked and encircled 2 German corps around Korsun, just south of Kyiv. This is the story of what happened to those two corps.
Sources:
Operations of Encircled Forces, German Experiences in Russia, 1952
No Stalingrad on the Dnieper:the Korsun-Shevchenkovsky operation by MAJ Douglas E.Nash
The collapse of the German army in the East in the summer of 1944 (Volume 1) summer of 1944 (Volume 1)
German Air Force Airlift operations by Generalmajor a. D. Fritz Morzik
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesselschlacht_von_Tscherkassy
Tjerkassy 44 by Niklas Zetterling och Anders Frankson
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Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-711-0438-05A / Menzendorf / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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