Operation Barbarossa
- Barbarossa “Red Beard” code name German attack on Russia June 1941
- Complete "surprise for Russia' despite warnings
- Breaks non-aggression pact
- 2000 mile long front
- Blitzkrieg (Lightning war) tactics surprise Red Army
- Nazis briefly seen as liberators
- Russian peasants began scorched earth policy (burning all crops and shelters so that land cannot be lived off of)
- Leningrad was besieged, captured Kiev, reached the Crimea and on the outskirts of Moscow
- Cold winter weather halts Germans (Rain leading to tanks put on and mud (unpaved roads) slowed down the tanks)
- Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken prisoner
- Complete "surprise for Russia' despite warnings
- Breaks non-aggression pact
- 2000 mile long front
- Blitzkrieg (Lightning war) tactics surprise Red Army
- Nazis briefly seen as liberators
- Russian peasants began scorched earth policy (burning all crops and shelters so that land cannot be lived off of)
- Leningrad was besieged, captured Kiev, reached the Crimea and on the outskirts of Moscow
- Cold winter weather halts Germans (Rain leading to tanks put on and mud (unpaved roads) slowed down the tanks)
- Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken prisoner
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Summary
June 1941, Germain invasion on Russia which broke the Non-Agression Pact. Resulted in over 2 Million Red Army Troops being taken prisoner.