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Operation Barbarossa
*Barbossa "Red Beard" code name German attack on Russia June 1941
*Complete surprise for Russia despite warnings
*Breaks the non-aggression pact
*2000 mile long front
*Blitzkrieg tactics surprise Red Army
*"Lightening war" New style of combat
*Cut your supply line off, no fuel or ammunition
*People usually surrender of over 100,000 people at a time
*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 (Next 4 years)
*Cold winter weather halts Germans
*Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken prisoner
*Massive surprise
*Does not however achieve all that it was meant to
*Complete surprise for Russia despite warnings
*Breaks the non-aggression pact
*2000 mile long front
*Blitzkrieg tactics surprise Red Army
*"Lightening war" New style of combat
*Cut your supply line off, no fuel or ammunition
*People usually surrender of over 100,000 people at a time
*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 (Next 4 years)
*Cold winter weather halts Germans
*Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken prisoner
*Massive surprise
*Does not however achieve all that it was meant to