Operation Barbarossa
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History of World War II: Operation Barbarossa: Myths and Reality
War against the Soviet Union was what Hitler had wanted from the beginning. He had already made this very clear in the pages of Mein Kampf, written in the mid-1920s. As a German historian, Rolf-Dieter Müller, has convincingly demonstrated in a well-documented study, it was a war against the Soviet Union, and not against Poland, France,… Continue reading
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Germany marks Barbarossa anniversary by deploying warplanes to Russia’s borders, singing birthday song for Hitler
Only three days before the 80th anniversary of the German-led Operation Barbarossa invasion of Soviet Russia on June 22, 1941, NATO reports that fifteen German warplanes flew near Russia’s northwest border for four days this month, the 14th-17th. Continue reading