Am 18. Dezember 1940 erteilte Adolf Hitler seinen Generälen den Befehl, den Angriff der Wehrmacht auf die Sowjetunion vorzubereiten. Auch Russland sollte mit einem Blitzkrieg unterjocht werden. Am 22.

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 ...

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 ...

Barbarossa, launched on June 22, 1941, is usually portrayed as a seamless string of German victories that brought Hitler’s forces within sight of the spires of Moscow before the onset of winter and a ...

''Brutal Reality of Eastern Front Exposed by Lost German Diaries' On 22 June 1941, Hitler's Germany launched 'Operation Barbarossa', the attack of the Soviet Union, the largest invasion in military ...

Rund 3,3 Millionen deutsche Soldaten mit fast 3.650 Panzern und Sturmgeschützen, rund 600.000 Kraftfahrzeugen und etwa 3.000 Flugzeugen treten am 22. Juni 1941 zum Angriff auf die Sowjetunion an. Eine ...

Binnen der kurzen Zeit kann die Rote Armee keine wirkungsvollen Gegenmaßnahmen treffen. Die Wehrmacht verzeichnet innerhalb der ersten Wochen nach dem Angriff enorme Raumgewinne – obwohl sie sich mit ...

Italian Forces and the T-34 During Operation Barbarossa, Italian troops fought alongside the German Wehrmacht and ...

Greece's contribution to World War II was far greater than simply defeating the Italian army and shaming Benito Mussolini by ...

On June 22, 1941 Adolf Hitler, with almost 4 million troops, ordered one of the largest attacks in human history to destroy Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union. The invasion was named as “Operation ...