“When Operation Barbarossa is launched, the world will hold its

breath!” - Adolf Hitler
On the night of June 22, 1941, more than 3 million German

soldiers, 600 000 vehicles and 3350 tanks were amassed along a 2000km

front stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Their sites were

all trained on Russia. This force was part of ‘Operation Barbarossa’,

the eastern front of the greatest military machine ever assembled.

This machine was Adolf Hitler’s German army. For Hitler, the

inevitable assault on Russia was to be the culmination of a long

standing obsession. He had always wanted Russia’s industries and

agricultural lands as part of his Lebensraum or ‘living space’ for

Germany and their Thousand Year Reich. Russia had been on Hitler’s

agenda since he wrote Mein Kampf some 17 years earlier where he

stated: ‘We terminate the endless German drive to the south and the

west of Europe, and direct our gaze towards the lands in......

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