Operation Barbarossa[g] was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on 22 June 1941, during World War II.

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, [1][2] and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact[3][4] and the Nazi–Soviet Pact, [5] was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German ...

A large number of Soviet citizens of various ethnicities collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. It is estimated that the number of Soviet collaborators with the Nazi German military was around 1 million.

Oct 29, 2009 · Operation Barbarossa, Adolf Hitler’s codename for Nazi Germany’s massive 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, was ultimately a costly failure.

Jan 22, 2025 · Operation Barbarossa: Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, June 22, 1941. For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted almost 150 divisions containing a …

Jan 16, 2025 · Operation Barbarossa, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.

Instead, four years later, Soviet troops would take Berlin and destroy Nazi Germany. But was the launch of Operation Barbarossa really a mistake? We examine why, in the mind of Hitler at least, Germany had to invade the Soviet Union, and how Hitler’s genocidal enterprise in the East might have claimed the lives of many millions more.

Regardless of recent economic and political co-operation, the Soviet Union was regarded as the natural enemy of Nazi Germany and a key strategic objective. German horse-drawn transport crossing a pontoon bridge over the river Dnieper at Smolensk.

Sep 25, 2018 · But Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on the Soviet Union, then set up what we all understand today as the main narrative of World War Two. That narrative is the great battle between the two totalitarian powers – four out …

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Beginning in June 1941, this blitzkrieg attack on Russia and its leader Joseph Stalin would ultimately decide the Second World War.