When Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941, its armored divisions expected another rapid victory built on blitzkrieg tactics. Instead, they encountered the Soviet T-34, a tank whose sloped ...

Sixty-nine-years ago today, 3.5 million German troops, plus another million from Nazi allies, invaded the USSR. (Geographically, the land now makes up Lithuania, Belarus, eastern Poland, Ukraine, and ...

One of the most momentous decisions in history was Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany's war from a one-front struggle, against ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Lost in the glow of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy, the 83rd commemoration on 22 June of the German invasion of the Soviet ...

Introduction -- Politics 1940-1941. Europe in July 1940 ; Hitler's ideology and strategy ; The monstrous scheme : a Greater Germanic empire ; Stalin's ideology and strategy -- The eve of war. The ...

Hitler is at the peak of his fanatical career, he has conquered France, and the German people are on his side. But now he's making the biggest mistake of his life. Hitler turns his gaze east and ...

After a deluge of bombs from the Luftwaffe, four million soldiers deploy along three axes: south toward Ukraine, central toward Moscow, and north toward Leningrad. The offensive catches the Red Army ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Unity of Command II: Barbarossa In this DLC, you command Axis forces during Operation Barbarossa, from their summer of roaring victories to the painful halt ...

The war between Germany and the Soviet Union officially began in late June 1941, although the threat of conflict had loomed since the early 1930s. Germany and the USSR launched... Here’s What You Need ...