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 ...
One of the most momentous decisions in history was Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany's war from a one-front struggle, against ...
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Lost in the glow of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy, the 83rd commemoration on 22 June of the German invasion of the Soviet ...
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 ...
Operation Barbarossa didn’t end with the opening strikes - it only grew more violent. Romanian pilots remained deeply ...
Save the date for Thursday, March 13, at 12:15 p.m. when Paul Belanger, a SaddleBrooke resident, will give a talk on Hitler’s biggest mistake: The invasion of the Soviet Union on June 6, 1941. Many ...
Hitler is at the peak of his fanatical career, he has conquered France, and the German people are on his side. But now he's making the biggest mistake of his life. Hitler turns his gaze east and ...
The war between Germany and the Soviet Union officially began in late June 1941, although the threat of conflict had loomed since the early 1930s. Germany and the USSR launched... Here’s What You Need ...