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THE WAR IN THE EAST OPERATION “BARBAROSSA” JUNE 22 1941

THE WAR IN THE EAST OPERATION “BARBAROSSA” JUNE 22 1941. FACTS: INVASION BEGAN ALONG AN 1,800 MILE FRONT – NEW YORK TO DENVER IS @1,600 MILES 600,000 VEHICLES AND 750,000 HORSES LARGEST MILITARY OPERATION IN HUMAN HISTORY IN BOTH MANPOWER AND CASUALTIES

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THE WAR IN THE EAST OPERATION “BARBAROSSA” JUNE 22 1941

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  1. THE WAR IN THE EASTOPERATION “BARBAROSSA” JUNE 22 1941 • FACTS: • INVASION BEGAN ALONG AN 1,800 MILE FRONT – NEW YORK TO DENVER IS @1,600 MILES • 600,000 VEHICLES AND 750,000 HORSES • LARGEST MILITARY OPERATION IN HUMAN HISTORY IN BOTH MANPOWER AND CASUALTIES • 116 GERMAN DIVISIONS – 4,306,800 MEN VS. 190 SOVIET DIVISIONS – 3,289,851 MEN • 500,000 ROMANIAN, HUNGARIAN, SLOVAKIAN, CROATIAN, AND ITALIAN TROOPS ACCOMPANIED THE GERMAN FORCES, • 4,171 GERMAN TANKS – 4,389 AIRCRAFT VS. 15,687 SOVIET TANKS AND 11,537 AIRCRAFT • ONLY 4,000 MILES OF PAVED ROADS IN ALL OF RUSSIA

  2. GERMAN – SOVIET RELATIONS • Hitler suggested in MEIN KAMPF ("My Struggle") that he would invade the Soviet Union, asserting that the German people needed Lebensraum ("living space", i.e. land and raw materials • Nazi racial ideology cast the Soviet Union as populated by “untermenchen" ethnic Slavs ruled by their “Jewish Bolshevik" masters. • It was Nazi stated policy to kill, deport, or enslave the Russian and other Slavic populations and repopulate the land with Germanic peoples

  3. THE PLAN

  4. OPERATIONS • BY JUNE 27TH, ARMY GROUP CENTER HAD ENCIRCLED 32 SOVIET DIVISIONS • BY 26TH OF JUNE, ARMY GROUP SOUTH HAD INFLICTED 600,000 KILLED, MISSING, CAPTURED OR WOUNDED SOVIET TROOPS • JULY – THE BATTLE OF SMOLENSK – GATEWAY TO MOSCOW– 180,000 SOVIETS CAPTURED • AUGUST – THE BATTLE OF KIEV - 452,720 SOVIETS CAPTURED • OCTOBER – THE DRIVE ON MOSCOW – 673,000 SOVIET PRISNORS – 3,000,000 SOVIET PRISONERS SINCE JUNE

  5. OPERATIONS - CONTINUED • BY NOVEMBER - GENERAL WINTER ARRIVES GERMANS ARE WITHIN 12 MILES OF MOSCOW • FROSTBITE AND DISEASE CAUSED MORE GERMAN CASUALTIES THAN COMBAT, DEAD AND WOUNDED HAD ALREADY REACHED 155,000 IN THREE WEEKS

  6. STALINGRAD 17 July 1942 - 2 February 1943 DEATH OF A GERMAN ARMY • COMBINED CASUALTIES ESTIMATED AT NEARLY TWO MILLION • THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE BOGGED DOWN IN HOUSE-TO-HOUSE FIGHTING

  7. STALINGRAD 17 July 1942 - 2 February 1943 DEATH OF A GERMAN ARMY • BY NOVEMBER THE SOVIETS HAD ENCIRCLED THE GERMAN 6TH ARMY • WINTER WEATHER, STARVATION, CASUALITIES, THE GERMAN 6TH ARMY MET A SLOW DEATH • AXIS FORCES IN STALINGRAD SURRENDERED ON 2 FEBRUARY1942 ; 500,000 TIRED, ILL, AND STARVING GERMANS, ITALIANS, ROMANIANS, AND HUNGARIANS WERE TAKEN PRISONER, • OF THE 91,000 GERMAN PRISONERS, ONLY ABOUT 5,000 EVER RETURNED. • THIS WAS THE TURNING POINT IN THE WAR IN THE EAST

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