Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History Trigg Jonathan
Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History Trigg Jonathan Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Only Great Britain had withstood the Nazis, but even it was battered and…
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Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History Trigg Jonathan
Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Only Great Britain had withstood the Nazis, but even it was battered and bruised and close to defeat. Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries and then the Balkans.
Having signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler back in 1939, Stalin was taken completely by surprise by the German attack. Then, on 22 June 1941 - in the most momentous decision of the war - the Nazi dictator turned East and flung his victorious armies into the vastness of the Soviet Union. Hitler's Wehrmacht - buoyed by years of untrammelled success and led by some of the greatest commanders Nazi Germany had to offer - crashed across the border and sent the Red Army reeling.
The German plan was simple and its scale staggering; over three million men, armed with