Operation Barbarossa was meant to end the war in the East within months, but it quickly exposed the limits of German power.

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 ...

In the summer of 1941, as Operation Barbarossa thundered across the Soviet border, massive armored forces collided in western Ukraine near Brody. Thousands of tanks clashed in chaotic, poorly ...