{"id":5815,"date":"2015-11-01T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T17:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2015-11-01T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T17:52:47","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-1-7-november-1943-kiev-is-liberated-by-the-soviets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5815","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 1&#8211;7 November 1943: Kiev is liberated by the Soviets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5813\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=5813\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5813\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5813\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5813\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Wkiev-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet infantry march along a street in Kiev, November 1943 [Public domain via Wikimedia Commons]\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Wkiev-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Wkiev-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Wkiev.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soviet infantry march along a street in Kiev, November 1943 [Public domain via Wikimedia Commons]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, the Soviet&#8217;s <em>3rd Guards Tank Army<\/em> entered Kiev&#8212;the Soviet Union&#8217;s third largest city. One day later, on 6 November 1943, the city fell to the Soviet Army. By\u00a0that time the Germans had withdrawn after destroying many of Kiev&#8217;s ancient buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish survivors who had been in hiding in Kiev described how tens of thousands of the city&#8217;s Jewish citizens had been murdered by the Nazis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war, the Soviet&#8217;s 3rd Guards Tank Army entered Kiev&#8212;the Soviet Union&#8217;s third largest city. One day later, on 6 November 1943, the city fell to the Soviet Army. By\u00a0that time the Germans had withdrawn after destroying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[934],"class_list":["post-5815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-kiev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}