When Nazi Germany launched the colossal invasion of Operation Barbarossa, swift victory seemed inevitable, until the T-34 ...

How did Stalin miss the most obvious attack in history? From early Soviet–German ties and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact to June 22, 1941, this episode traces the road to Operation Barbarossa and ...

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 ...

After a deluge of bombs from the Luftwaffe, four million soldiers deploy along three axes: south toward Ukraine, central toward Moscow, and north toward Leningrad. The offensive catches the Red Army ...

No Spanish ships or ports were safe when dread pirate Barbarossa, ally of the powerful Ottoman Empire, sailed the high seas. Hayreddin’s brother Oruç was the first to be known as Barbarossa. His ...