When Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, more than 750,000 horses marched east alongside the Wehrmacht. While tanks ...

Operation Barbarossa opened with the largest invasion in history as German forces smashed across the Soviet border. The early ...

In early September 1941, the German Wehrmacht was advancing on all fronts in the Soviet Union. Kyiv had fallen, the Smolensk stronghold had been defeated and Leningrad was under siege. Hitler intended ...

Seventy-five years ago today, in the early morning hours of June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive, undeclared invasion of the Soviet Union. Over the course of the ...

2/20 German soldiers watch a Soviet village burn in June 1941. Barbarossa was the largest military ground invasion in history, with some 3.8 million troops, thousands of tanks and aircraft, and more ...