Operation Barbarossa in WWII- "When Operation Barbarossa is launched, the world will hold its breath!" - Adolf Hitler On the night of June 22, 1941, more than 3 million German soldiers, 600 000 vehicles and 3350 tanks were amassed along a 2000km front stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Their sites were all trained on Russia. This force was part of 'Operation Barbarossa', the eastern front of the greatest military machine ever assembled. This machine was Adolf Hitler's German …showed first 75 words of 2661 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2661 total…shattered forever. --- BIBLIOGRAPHY i Whaley, Barton, pg. 12 ii Wright, Michael, pg. 104 iii Macksey, Kenneth, "Military Errors Of World War II", Stoddard Publishing Co., Ontario, Canada, 1987 iv ibid, pg. 47 v ibid, pg. 48 vi ibid pg.51-54 vii Wright, Michael, "The World At Arms", Readers Digest Association Ltd., London, 1989. Pg. 108 viii Bethell, Nicholas, "Russia Besieged", Time-Life Books, Canada, 1977 pg. 72 ix Wright, Michael, pg. 107 x Wright, Michael, pg. 108-109 xi Bethell, Nicholas, pg . 90 xii Wright, Michael, pg. 118