The First Battle of Kiev began on August 7, 1941. It was one of the greatest stages of Operation Barbarossa with attacks, resistance, and counterattacks all failing. This was the situation on the ...

Adolf Hitler's monumental decision to invade the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 was far from inevitable. The Nazi war machine ...

The June 1941 German invasion of Russia was called Operation Barbarossa, in which 3,000 men of the Einsatzgruppen planned to seek out and destroy the 5,000,000 Jews in Russia and end civilian ...

June 22nd marks the 70th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union -- the biggest military adventure in history, which led directly to the downfall of ...

Seventy years ago today the two most vile systems the world has yet produced locked themselves in a deadly embrace. Along an 1,800-mile front, 4.5 million soldiers of Hitler’s Nazi Germany and ...

Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941 with the aim of invading the Soviet Union to secure future German interests. It marked the beginning of a campaign that would ultimately ...

By joining Israel against Iran, the United States has expanded its commitments more than it can now know. President Donald ...

The Nazi invasion operation Barbarossa of the then Soviet Union eighty-three years ago continues to provide the strategic prism with which Russia views perceived threats. Furthermore, because of the ...

As he notes, the Soviet victory avenged the humiliation of Operation Barbarossa, the German blitzkrieg invasion of the U.S.S.R. that began in June 1941 and brought the Wehrmacht to the outskirts ...