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The 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" in Russia, 1941. In April 1941, the division was ordered East to join Field Marshal Wilhelm von Leeb's Army Group North. Leeb's force was tasked with advancing on Leningrad and formed the northern wing of Operation Barbarossa. Totenkopf took part in the advance through Lithuania and Latvia, and by July had breached the Stalin Line. The division then advanced past Demyansk to Leningrad where it was involved in heavy fighting in August. Not to be confused with SS-Totenkopfverbände, the SS organization responsible for administering the German Nazi concentration camps.