In June 1941, just after Operation Barbarossa began, German panzer forces collided with massive Soviet mechanized formations near Dubno, Lutsk, and Brody in western Ukraine. The Red Army had large ...
The conflicts on the Eastern Front of World War II were bloody and brutal. By 1943, the German army had lost millions of soldiers in Russia and resorted to using aging conscripts from World War I and ...
To mark the 85th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa—Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union and the start of the most barbaric war of annihilation in history—we are republishing here an article ...