On June 24, 1941, during the desperate fight to defend Raseiniai in Lithuania from the massive German offensive, one 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 ...
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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 ...
The Second World War began on 1 September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland,[...] ...
Key point: The Red Army in June of 1941 was caught terribly off-balance, still reeling and reorganizing from Stalin’s purges. One of the most momentous decisions in history was Adolf Hitler’s invasion ...