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 ...

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 ...

In 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest land invasion in history, but strategic decisions, logistical failures, and Soviet resistance turned the campaign into a turning point ...

When Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, its armored forces advanced with confidence born of earlier victories. That confidence was shaken when German crews in Ukraine encountered the Soviet T-34 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...