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 ( Tanks, Planes, Trains)
- 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
- Old winter weather halts Germans ( -50 and wind)
- Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken prisoner
Operation Barbarossa “Red Beard” code name German attack on Russia June 1941.