In June 1941, Nazi Germany launched the largest land invasion in history against the Soviet Union. Hitler believed the Red Army would collapse quickly—but he severely underestimated Soviet resilience ...

Early on June 22, 1941, the largest invasion in the history of warfare kicked off. Millions of Axis troops crossed into the Soviet Union, marking the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. Germans troops ...

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 ...

A journey into Hitler’s hidden forest headquarters in Poland, where key World War II campaigns were directed and the legacy ...

Key Point: A delayed invasion would have been a gift to the Soviets. One of the most momentous decisions in history was Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Operation ...

80 years ago this week, on 22 June 1941, Operation Barbarossa — the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union — was launched. The warfare between the Nazis and the Russians, which lasted until the end ...

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 ...

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 ...

Key point: The invasion was a strategic disaster and turned the fight into a two-front war. Hitler would estimate what it would take to defeat the Soviets. One of the most momentous decisions in ...

Adolf Hitler’s rise and fall was driven as much by catastrophic decision-making as by the military power he briefly commanded. While the Third Reich’s collapse had many causes—economic limits, Allied ...