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In 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa expecting the Soviet Union to collapse within weeks. Instead, Germany was drawn into a brutal struggle defined by endless manpower, scorched earth, and a ...
Black Cross/Red Star: The Air War Over the Eastern Front, Volume I: Operation Barbarossa, 1941 (United Kingdom: Pacifica Military Books, 2001). Bialer, Seweryn.
On this day, June 22: Several key incidents took place on this day, June 22, and continue to impact our lives. In 1983, the day witnessed the historic ‘Hand of God’ goal by iconic footballer Diego ...
On June 22, 1941, Hitler had 4 million soldiers of the Axis powers, along with 600,000 tanks and 700,000 horses, march into the erstwhile USSR along the full length of the Soviet-Axis front, 2,900-km ...
On 22 June 1941, the German Wehrmacht launched a war of aggression against the Soviet Union. Under the code name ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the campaign aimed to bring the vast country in the east to its ...
Introduction -- Politics 1940-1941. Europe in July 1940 ; Hitler's ideology and strategy ; The monstrous scheme : a Greater Germanic empire ; Stalin's ideology and strategy -- The eve of war. The ...