Operation Barbarossa
•Barbarossa “Red Beard” code name German attack on Russia June 1941
•Complete surprise for Russia despite warnings
•Breaks non-aggression pact
•2000 mile long front
•Blitzkrieg tactics surprise Red Army
•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
•Cold winter weather halts Germans
•Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken prisoner
•Complete surprise for Russia despite warnings
•Breaks non-aggression pact
•2000 mile long front
•Blitzkrieg tactics surprise Red Army
•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
•Cold winter weather halts Germans
•Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken prisoner
Summary
Operation Barbarossa was a blitzkrieg style attack from Germany that broke the Non-aggression pact with the Soviet. because of the Soviet implemented the scorched earth policy and the weather was in their favor Germany got stopped outside of Moscow
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