Operation Barbarossa
Notes
- Initial Attack on Russia (Breaking Non-Aggression Pact)
- June 22, 1941 – Led by Von Paulos
- Stalin was warned, did nothing – caught off guard
- First attacks masterful. Soviets pushed back
- Captured Leningrad/Keiv, 50 miles from Moscow
- Russians retreat to Moscow, scorched earth policy
- Russian Winter hits. Coldest in 50 years
- German Machines all freeze. Germans not ready for winter
- Thousands died to cold
- Attack on Moscow failed (50miles)
- Siberian soldiers and weather primary reason
Summary
Operation Barbarossa was an attack on Russia, by the Germans. it began in June 22nd, 1941, and was led by Von Paulos. Josef Stalin had been warned about this oncoming attack but chose to do nothing, and was caught off guard. They captured Leningrad and Kiev, and were a mere 50 miles outside of Moscow. The Russians retreated to Moscow, while using the scorched earth policy the entire way. When the Russian winter hit, the German machines and soldiers could not handle it, and many died. The attack on Moscow failed, and the Germans were defeated.
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Do you think the war would have been different if the Germans had taken over Moscow?
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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful, and unrelenting harshness.
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler