Opertation Bararossa
-Barbarossa "Red Beard" code name German attack on Russia in June 1941
-Complete surprise for Russia despite warnings
-Breaks the non-agression pact signed earlier
-2000 mile long front
-Blitzkrieg tactics surprise Red Army
-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
-Cold winter weather halts Germans (tanks cant move in the mud, cold weather stopped attacks)
-Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken Prisoner
-Complete surprise for Russia despite warnings
-Breaks the non-agression pact signed earlier
-2000 mile long front
-Blitzkrieg tactics surprise Red Army
-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
-Cold winter weather halts Germans (tanks cant move in the mud, cold weather stopped attacks)
-Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken Prisoner
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Summary: in 1941 the Germans launched a surprise attack on Russia, breaking to Soviet-Nazi non aggression pact. Although the Germans were quickly taking over Russian, the Russians were able to fight them off using the scorched earth policy and from the factor of weather.