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
"When Operation Barbarossa is launched, the world will hold its breath!"
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler