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Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
Jun 15, 2011 · Operation Barbarossa, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.
Oct 29, 2009 · Operation Barbarossa, Adolf Hitler’s codename for Nazi Germany’s massive 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, was ultimately a costly failure.
Be careful about superlatives, that is, until you’re talking about Operation Barbarossa, the surprise German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 and the nearly four years of war that followed on what the Germans called “the Eastern Front.”
On the 22nd of June 1941, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. It was the beginning of a campaign that would ultimately decide the Second World War. At first, the Germans enjoyed stunning success, the panzers forged ahead, while the Luftwaffe ruled the skies.
On 22 June 1941 Hitler launched Operation 'Barbarossa', the invasion of the Soviet Union. It was the beginning of a campaign that would ultimately decide the Second World War. Hitler regarded the Soviet Union as his natural enemy.
On June 22nd, 1941, Operation Barbarossa was launched to begin the East Front - the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The invasion plans were optimistic: it was thought that Axis forces - through surprise, strength, and optimizations of the 'blitzkrieg' - could reach and capture the Soviet capital of Moscow in little more than eight weeks.
Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in "Operation Barbarossa." In accordance with previous agreements between SS and police and Wehrmacht representatives, German mobile units of Security Police and SD officials, called Einsatzgruppen, followed the frontline troops into the Soviet Union.
4 days ago · Operation Barbarossa: Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, June 22, 1941. See all videos for this article. For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted almost 150 divisions containing a total of about 3,000,000 men.
Jun 15, 2011 · As the German drive against Moscow slackened, the Soviet commander on the Moscow front, Gen. Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, on December 6 inaugurated the first great counteroffensive, with strokes against Bock’s right in the Yelets (Elets) and Tula sectors, south of Moscow, and against his centre in the Klin and Kalinin (now Tver) sectors, to th...
