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

1941 The Southern and Central Thrusts . June 22 1941 Operation Barbarossa begins: Army Group North – Wilhem Ritter von Leeb . Army Group Centre – Feodor Von Bock

Army Group Centre (German: Heeresgruppe Mitte) was the name of two distinct German strategic army groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.

Operation Barbarossa: The Failure of Nazi Ideology at the Eastern Front. by Paul Fleming, Jr. On June 22,1941, German troops invaded the USSR, thus beginning one of

Insignia of the 2nd Panzer Group / 2nd Panzer Army. Active: 5 Juin 1940 – 8 May 1945: Country Nazi Germany: Branch: Army: Type: Panzer army

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On June 22 nd, 1941, Army Group North, the smallest of the three German army groups, drives forward into the Baltic states. Its objective is Leningrad. Once the crown

WW2: Barbarossa to Berlin, 2006 Edition 2. Scott on 10/8/2012, said: A quick playing game on the Second World War in the West.

17 Jun 1937 : Red Army planner Valentin Trifonov wrote to Joseph Stalin, noting that Germany was the likely military enemy of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union

It´s 07:59hs on july 2nd, 1941. Task force Lukin had set up a nice pincer attack on the Germans defenders of Ostrog North. A determined Soviet attack combined forces