Operation Barbarossa
-Operation Barbarossa, code named “Red Beard” was a German attack on Russia on 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