We met with a woman from the regional government of Tver. She asked to meet us at the war museum. There we learned much about the many horrible battles that took place in and around Rzhev.
Rzhev was held by a strong force of well equipped German soldiers and the Russian army fought hard to take back the city. According to the interpreters, an estimated 2 million Russian soldiers and 500 thousand German soldiers died in the battles in and near Rzhev in the winter of 1942/43.
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