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 ...

When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941, he believed the Soviet Union would collapse in weeks. Instead, the Germans faced a nightmare of endless Soviet manpower, brutal winters, and the ...

In June 1941, Hitler’s armies stormed into the Soviet Union under Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history. Among them was Michael Wittmann, a young assault gun commander in the SS ...