Early on June 22, 1941, the largest invasion in the history of warfare kicked off. Millions of Axis troops crossed into the Soviet Union, marking the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. Germans troops ...

During Operation Barbarossa in 1941, a single Soviet KV-2 heavy tank blocked German supply routes near Raseiniai in Lithuania ...

Sixty-nine-years ago today, 3.5 million German troops, plus another million from Nazi allies, invaded the USSR. (Geographically, the land now makes up Lithuania, Belarus, eastern Poland, Ukraine, and ...

When Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941, its armored divisions expected another rapid victory built on blitzkrieg tactics. Instead, they encountered the Soviet T-34, a tank whose sloped ...

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 ...

Key point: The invasion was a strategic disaster and turned the fight into a two-front war. Hitler would estimate what it would take to defeat the Soviets. One of the most momentous decisions in ...

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 ...

Key Point: A delayed invasion would have been a gift to the Soviets. One of the most momentous decisions in history was Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Operation ...