Operation Barbarossa : Story of Soldier - E-book - ePub

The launch of operation Barbarosa theinvasion of the Soviet Union on the 22ndof June1941 was Germany's most desperate gambleof the second worldwar it was a gamble Hitler feltcompelled to take if his ambition of thecomplete subjugation of Europe were tobecome areality 4 fifths of Germany's total Army3 million troops were committed to themost appalling conflict in the historyofwarfare in little more than one yearHitler's armies had reduced vast areasof Western Russia to dust and rubble andsubjected the Soviet peoples tounimaginablebrutality while the Allies looked onRussia was in agony and being draggedthrough a nightmare of Slaughter to theedge of Extinctionin1941 the conquest of Russia would notonly have provided Germany with theAgricultural and Industrial Supplies toensure Hitler's Mastery of Europe, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,,