The launch of operation Barbarosa the
invasion of the Soviet Union on the 22nd
of June
1941 was Germany's most desperate gamble
of the second world
war it was a gamble Hitler felt
compelled to take if his ambition of the
complete subjugation of Europe were to
become a
reality 4 fifths of Germany's total Army
3 million troops were committed to the
most appalling conflict in the history
of
warfare in little more than one year
Hitler's armies had reduced vast areas
of Western Russia to dust and rubble and
subjected the Soviet peoples to
unimaginable
brutality while the Allies looked on
Russia was in agony and being dragged
through a nightmare of Slaughter to the
edge of Extinction
in
1941 the conquest of Russia would not
only have provided Germany with the
Agricultural and Industrial Supplies to
ensure Hitler's Mastery of Europe,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
