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Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is well known for the German army’s ...
Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, is without a doubt one of the most momentous events of the 20th century. It marked the beginning of what in the Soviet Union would come to be known as the ‘Great Patriotic War’, and although it lies 80 years in the past, it is still extensively studied.
Goebbels’s new propaganda guidelines of June 22, 1941—the day the invasion of Russia was launched—make clear that reporting was to interpret the realities of war in ideological terms and put a positive spin on them.
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.”
Operation Barbarossa [g] 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. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants taking part, [26] and over 8 million casualties by the end of the operation. [27] [28]
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.
29 Οκτ 2009 · Operation Barbarossa Begins. Hitler hoped to repeat the success of the blitzkrieg in Western Europe and win a quick victory over the massive nation he viewed as Germany’s sworn enemy. On June...
