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<strong>Hitler</strong> vs Stalin: Operation Barbarossa<br />
4. Finnish assistance<br />
10 July<br />
While the Romanians plug away in<br />
the south, the Finnish army moves<br />
towards the Karelian Isthmus. In<br />
total, 300,000 Finnish soldiers join<br />
in the fight against the USSR.<br />
1. The distant<br />
rumble<br />
of panzers<br />
22 June<br />
Barbarossa gets under<br />
way as German armoured<br />
divisions race east to<br />
deliver what they hope will<br />
be a knock-out blow to the<br />
unprepared Soviet forces.<br />
LATVIA<br />
LITHUANIA<br />
THE BLOODY PURSUIT<br />
OF LEBENSRAUM<br />
How the Ostheer blazed a trail through the plains<br />
and cities of eastern Europe<br />
5. Smolensk<br />
16 July<br />
Another important city on<br />
the road to Moscow is taken<br />
by the Germans. Resistance<br />
lasts in the city until 5<br />
August. By 1 September, the<br />
frontline has extended as far<br />
as Leningrad in the north and<br />
the Crimea in the south.<br />
7. Operation Typhoon<br />
2 October<br />
An all-out assault on Moscow<br />
begins after much deliberation in<br />
the Nazi hierarchy. The Germans<br />
manage to fight their way to the<br />
capital’s suburbs but ultimately fail<br />
to take the city as winter sets in.<br />
BYELORUSSIA<br />
9. Winter takes hold<br />
5 December<br />
Horrendous weather conditions<br />
and fresh Soviet recruits take<br />
their toll on the exhausted<br />
Wehrmacht, which has no<br />
alternative but to turn back.<br />
Operation Barbarossa has<br />
failed in its objectives, however,<br />
eastern Europe has fallen under<br />
the shadow of the Greater<br />
German Reich.<br />
GERMANY<br />
3. More cities fall<br />
3 July<br />
The onslaught continues as<br />
Volkovysk and then Minsk<br />
are both taken as German<br />
forces encircle the Red Army<br />
and take 324,000 prisoners.<br />
U S S R<br />
HUNGARY<br />
UKRAINE<br />
ROMANIA<br />
2. Romanian allies<br />
22 June<br />
It isn’t just the Wehrmacht<br />
ploughing east as two allied<br />
Romanian armies press into<br />
Ukraine heading for the city<br />
of Odessa.<br />
8. Siege of Sevastopol<br />
16 November<br />
Crimea falls into the hands of the<br />
Germans after a lengthy siege that<br />
eventually results in an Axis victory.<br />
The area will be used as a launch<br />
pad for the drive to the oil fields of<br />
the Caucasus in Operation Blue.<br />
6. The taking of Kiev<br />
16 September<br />
The capital of the Ukrainian<br />
Socialist Soviet Republic is the<br />
next settlement to fall as Soviet<br />
troops are trapped in a pocket<br />
east of the city. A month later, the<br />
Wehrmacht have advanced even<br />
further to Bryansk and Belgorod.<br />
KEY<br />
GERMAN ADVANCE<br />
SOVIET<br />
COUNTERATTACK<br />
SURROUNDED<br />
SOVIET FORCES<br />
GERMAN TROOPS<br />
SOVIET TROOPS<br />
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