Recovering from the sudden tank attack, the 1st Mountain Division marched on Lvov. The Soviet Sixth Army erected a hasty defense line in front of the city, and just before the Germans arrived the city garrison released a composite battalion of the NKVD’s 233rd Rifle Regiment, which had been employed busily massacring political prisoners before the Germans arrived. These sinister reinforcements filtered into the line hours ahead of the assault.

Days of defeat, marked by constant air attacks, had taken their toll on the Red Army. But the 41st Rifle Division still had some fight in it, even if the NKVD battalion did not add anything more than extra numbers – these chekisti, unlike the long-service border guards, had not expected to face enemies who might shoot back at them. The scratch Soviet defense held for a day, however, buying time to murder still more enemies of the state in Lvov.

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