Operation Barbarossa was Nazi Germany’s unprovoked invasion of the Soviet Union, launched on June 22, 1941. This operational analysis follows the German advance from its early victories through the ...

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. It was launched on this day in 1941, and aimed to conquer Soviet territory, defeat the ...

In June 1941, Hitler’s armies stormed into the Soviet Union under Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history. Among them was Michael Wittmann, a young assault gun commander in the SS ...

Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. At 3am on 22 June 1941 – one year to the day after France fell to the Nazis – the largest invasion force in history entered the Soviet Union.

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Barbarossa was the largest military ground invasion in history, with some 3.8 million troops, thousands of tanks and aircraft, and more than half a million horses advancing across the entirety of ...

June 22, 2022 is the 81 st anniversary of the launch of Operation Barbarossa, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, when fighting on a massive scale truly began in the Second World War. It ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin says it was the Soviet Union, not the Western allies, that defeated Nazism and “saved the entire world,” he can point to this date, June 22, as a pivotal moment ...

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 ...