Italian Forces and the T-34 During Operation Barbarossa, Italian troops fought alongside the German Wehrmacht and ...
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 ...
In the early hours of June 22, 1941, the silence along a vast Eastern front erupted into fire. Germany launched its most ambitious military gamble, catching Soviet defenses in stunned disarray. As ...