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**dragos03** · 10-19-2005, 06:59 AM

Odessa was attacked and conquered by the Romanian army, not the Germans. Only a small number of Germans fought at Odessa, in the final phases of the siege. And the Romanians were not Nazis.

For a very detailed article about the siege of Odessa see this article (in English):
http://www.worldwar2.ro/operatii/?article=7

Some innacuracies in the text about Sevastopol too. It was a mixed German-Romanian force that attacked the city, not only Germans. As far as i know, the Axis force didn't have a single tank, so the statement that the Russians were outnumbered in tanks is not true. The city was captured when the fortification lines were breached, not because they ran out of ammo. And almost all the defenders were killed or captured (a Romanian mountain division captured 10,000 prisoners in a single day), so "several military divisions" didn't make it to the mountains to fight a guerilla war.

**Soviet** · 10-19-2005, 07:30 AM

There is many mistakes in the text, because actually there were more than 4 Hero cities in the USSR. Here they are :

Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Sevastopol were they only one that was awarded in 1945. They other one received later their title.

**Darrell** · 10-19-2005, 08:32 AM

Thanks Gerd. You have many I'm dying to get as well

Thanks guys for the information on the text surrounding the battles. I guess the place I got the information was a little misleading. Good corrections and links to other interesting sites

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