June 22nd marks the 70th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union -- the biggest military adventure in history, which led directly to the downfall of Adolf ...

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa the largest invasion in history against the Soviet Union. In the first 24 hours, hundreds of thousands of troops crossed the border, ...

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In June 1941, Hitler’s armies stormed into the Soviet Union under Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history. Among them was Michael Wittmann, a young assault gun commander in the SS ...

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. It was launched on this day in 1941, and aimed to conquer Soviet territory, defeat the ...

Illustrating this point is a letter sent in May 1941, just weeks before the Nazi invasion, by Eta and Jacob Bernstein to their daughter Ida in Tel Aviv. They expressed their concern for the safety of ...

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 ...

Two new books published to mark the 80th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa offer different but complementary perspectives on the largest invasion in human history, writes Vin Arthey At 3:15 am on ...

In a podcast with Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper claimed the Nazis “launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, and local political ...

Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. At 3am on 22 June 1941 – one year to the day after France fell to the Nazis – the largest invasion force in history entered the Soviet Union.