Operation Barbarossa didn’t end with the opening strikes - it only grew more violent. Romanian pilots remained deeply ...

Sixty-nine-years ago today, 3.5 million German troops, plus another million from Nazi allies, invaded the USSR. (Geographically, the land now makes up Lithuania, Belarus, eastern Poland, Ukraine, and ...

The Romanian Air Force was heavily involved in Operation Barbarossa, the Axis Powers invasion of the USSR since day one.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Lost in the glow of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy, the 83rd commemoration on 22 June of the German invasion of the Soviet ...

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 ...

After a deluge of bombs from the Luftwaffe, four million soldiers deploy along three axes: south toward Ukraine, central toward Moscow, and north toward Leningrad. The offensive catches the Red Army ...

In June 1941, Hitler decides to break the German-Soviet pact and set the German army in motion toward Moscow. From summer to winter, and from Kiev to Leningrad, previously unseen archival footage, ...

The war between Germany and the Soviet Union officially began in late June 1941, although the threat of conflict had loomed since the early 1930s. Germany and the USSR launched... Here’s What You Need ...