what do u know about the ww2 operation barbarossa?

Answer 1

The largest land battle in military history, launched by 3 million German and Axis soldiers in 1941....the battle that would eventually decide the Second World War.

Hitler, like Napoleon who was also left chomping at the bit at the coast separating him and England, he turned eastward, ever eastward, to the boundless land of Mother Russia.

Answer 2

The German invasion was meant to help people of Finland who were being invaded by the Soviet Red Army. The German people felt sympathies for the people of Finland. The Nazis also wanted to destroy the Communists and all those who brought about communism. That is their corps belief from the beginning. However, instead of letting the Wehrmacht Generals do their work, Hitler was making all the decisions from the rear. That's why the Germans lost Operation Barbarossa. Read Hermann Göring's jailhouse interview that explains it all including Operation Barbarossa:
http://www.historynet.com/wars_conflicts/world_war_2/3751042.html

Answer 3

The largest land campaign in history, the invasion was planned on three major thrusts: Army Group North moved through the Baltic States with the objective of capturing Leningrad (St Petersberg). Army Group Center was to advance on the Minsk-Smolensk-Moscow axis to destroy the Soviet field army, and capture Moscow.
Army Group South's mission was to prevent Soviet forces in the Ukraine from reinforcing the center. Also to advance on a Lvov-Dnepropetrovsk axis.
Hungarian, Rumanian, Finnish, Italian, and Spanish forces were also involved. All except the Finns were concentrated in Army Group South. The Finns didn't come into the war until several days later. They had the stated aim of regaining the territory lost during the Winter War. Once they achieved this (about August 1941) they basically stood fast until 1944.
Stalin, contrary to myth, DID try to cut a deal with first Finland, then Nazi Germany. In August 1941, the Soviets proposed that they would withdraw from captured territory if the Finns would eject the Germans. The Finnish position was then the Germans would merely occupy their country.
He also, offered a deal through the Bulgarian ambassador: Basically it was a "Brest-Litovsk" which settled WW1. He had the communist ideological piece on his side, as he cited Lenin's actions to exit Russia. There was another offer in 1942 via ambassadors in Sweden. This offer was pretty much a return to pre-war borders. Given Hitler's psychology, there was never much chance he would accept these, or even use them as the basis of negotiation. Contrary to further myth, he WAS advised by Goebbels, Ribbentrop, and Goering to negotiate.
Something to keep in mind, especially when listening to the hyped "Greatest Generation", is that even in late 1944, 75% of German combat power was deployed in the USSR. It was truly the Soviet campaign that destroyed the Wehrmacht, and brought about the end of WW2 in Europe.

Answer 4

You could fill books. German attack on Russia at 5:15 A.M.
June 22, 1941. The world would hold its breath. The two mightiest
Totalitarian powers of all time claw at one anothers throats.
One German General put it this way "In attacking Russia the German Army is like an Elephant attacking a hill of ants, in the beginning the elephant will kill thousands, even millions but in the end their number will overwhelm him and the elephant will be eaten to the bone. Four long bloody destructful years. So many Generals and battles and heroism on both sides. The battle for Smolinsk, Lennongrad, Moscow but Stalingrad spelled the end as 250,000 Germans were surrounded and their General Von Paulus suurendered to I think General Zhukov. The only German Field Marshal to ever surrender. 25,000,000 were killed in that war. 5,000.000 Germans, 20,000,000 Russians.
I could go on and on all night and never touch the surface.

Answer 5

See if you can find a copy of Bryan Fugate's book, "Operation Barbarossa, Strategy and Tactics on the Eastern Front, 1941." Plenty of info there for starters.

Answer 6

It was the german invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Hitler had stated his intention in his book Mein Kampf of aquiring more lebensraum for the german people by invading and occupying the countries to the east.