Kiev was occupied on September 19, 1941 by the Wehrmacht; it was liberated on November 6, 1943 by the Red Army after 778 days of Nazi occupation. In both cases, the battle did not take place in kyiv, but around kyiv.
The Germans could have taken kyiv earlier, as early as July 12, 1941. The IIIand panzer corps, having reached 12 kilometers from the city, would indeed have had the opportunity to try a hand. Hitler forbade it, the metropolis being according to him “a Jewish nest”. He even adds that the Jews would form 35% of its population (26% in reality). Rather than engage the tanks in an urban combat for which they were not made, he turned his machines towards the south of the Ukraine, in order to seek the destruction of two Soviet armies there. In August and September 1941, a…
