On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa the largest invasion in history against the Soviet Union. In the ...

With Operation Barbarossa, the forces of the Third Reich commenced Hitler’s plan to destroy the Soviet Union and conquer its ...

The Romanian Air Force was heavily involved in Operation Barbarossa, the Axis Powers invasion of the USSR since day one.

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 ...

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 ...

In June 1941, Hitler decides to break the German-Soviet pact and set the German army in motion toward Moscow. From summer to winter, and from Kiev to Leningrad, previously unseen archival footage, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Second World War began on 1 September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland,[...] ...