"At the end of the war, a group of high ranking German officers ended up in an American POW camp. These officers wrote a series of reports, which were used by the Americans to study tank tactics. These reports were the main account of a battle, where a single KV tank stopped the advance of the German Kampfgruppe Raus, a part of the 4th Panzer Group, for 24 hours. Today, most historians agree that it was a KV-2, but there is no certainty of this fact, so the rest of this article will not use a numeric index. This unique battle happened on June 24-25th, 1941, next to the Lithuanian village of Raseiniai.
Kampfgruppe Raus was formed from elements of the 6th tank division before the invasion of the USSR. A second group, formed from the same division, received the name "Von Seckendorff". On June 23rd, both groups set up on the eastern shore of the river Dubis.
German air reconnaisance reported that Soviet tanks are moving towards the Von Seckendorff group. These were vehicles from the 2nd tank division of the RKKA, delivering a flanking counterattack. However, due to poor coordination and the general chaos of the first few days of war, the tanks were late. Instead of a flank, the Soviets were met with the front of the German forces…"
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