Unternehmen Barbarossa

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Unternehmen Barbarossa was Nazi Germany’s massive 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, intended to quickly defeat the USSR but ultimately resulting in a prolonged and disastrous campaign for the Germans.

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Unternehmen Barbarossa canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II campaign
invasion
military operation
alsoKnownAs Operation Barbarossa
associatedWithWarCrimes Holocaust
surface form: Holocaust in the occupied Soviet territories

mass shootings by Einsatzgruppen
starvation policies against civilians
axisAlly Finland
Hungary
Italy
Romania
belligerent Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
casualties millions of military personnel
civilianCasualties millions of civilians
commandedBy Fedor von Bock
Gerd von Rundstedt
Wilhelm von Leeb
endDate 1941-12-05
followedBy Battle of Stalingrad
Case Blue
front Eastern Front
historicalSignificance marked turning point leading to eventual German defeat
opened the Eastern Front in World War II
ideologicalGoal Lebensraum in the East
destruction of Bolshevism
extermination and enslavement of Slavic populations
involvedForce Axis allied forces
Luftwaffe
NKVD
Red Army
Wehrmacht
location Eastern Front
notableBattle Battle of Kiev (1941)
Battle of Moscow
surface form: Battle of Moscow (initial phase)

Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Siege of Leningrad
surface form: Siege of Leningrad (initial phase)
objective capture Moscow
defeat the Soviet Union
destroy the Red Army
occupy Ukraine
seize Leningrad
opposedBy Georgy Zhukov
Joseph Stalin
orderedBy Adolf Hitler
partOf World War II
plannedBy Adolf Hitler
precededBy Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
result German strategic failure
Soviet defensive success
prolonged war on the Eastern Front
startDate 1941-06-22
theatre European theatre of World War II
violated Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

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Description of subject: Unternehmen Barbarossa was Nazi Germany’s massive 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, intended to quickly defeat the USSR but ultimately resulting in a prolonged and disastrous campaign for the Germans.

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Operation Barbarossa alsoKnownAs Unternehmen Barbarossa