German soldiers advance through northern Russia. German flamethrower crew burns down a house in the background. German Panzer IV stuck in the snow with white camouflage paint. Soviet Ilyushin Il-2s hovering over German positions near Moscow. Soviet POWs on the way to prison campsSoviet soldiers fire artillery. Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1974-099-19 / Kempe / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Samaryi Guraryi / Самарий Гурарий Ustinov / Александр Устинов Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-209-0090-28 / Zoll / CC-BY-SA 3.0. CC0.
Operation Barbarossa
22 June 1941
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union in a campaign conceived as a racial and ideological war.
Overview
Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union in a campaign conceived as a racial and ideological war. Its causes, participants and consequences connect this record to the wider Second World War guide, where the event is placed in chronology rather than treated as an isolated date.
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