Operation Barbarossa
- *Barbossa "Red Beard" code name German attack on Russia June 1941
- *Complete surprise for Russia despite warnings
- *Breaks the non-aggression pact
- *2000 mile long front
- *Blitzkrieg tactics surprise Red Army
- *"Lightening war" New style of combat
- *Cut your supply line off, no fuel or ammunition
- *People usually surrender of over 100,000 people at a time
- *Nazis briefly seen as liberators
- *Russian peasants began scorched earth policy (Burning all crops and shelters)
- *Leningrad was besieged, captured Kiev, reached the crimea and on the outskirts of Moscow (Next 4 years)
- *Cold winter weather halts Germans
- *Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken prisoner
- *Massive surprise
- *Does not however achieve all that it was meant to
"Frontier regions west of the state border packed with troops... tanks, armoured cars and guns poorly concealed or not concealed at all...”
- Soviet reconnaissance pilot
- Soviet reconnaissance pilot