Operation Barbarossa

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Operation Barbarossa was Nazi Germany’s massive 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, marking a pivotal and brutal turning point on the Eastern Front of World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II campaign
invasion
military operation
alsoKnownAs Unternehmen Barbarossa
associatedWith Einsatzgruppen
surface form: Einsatzgruppen mass shootings

Holocaust
surface form: Holocaust in the East
belligerent Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
casualties millions of military and civilian deaths
characteristic blitzkrieg tactics
mass atrocities against civilians
war of annihilation
commandedBy Adolf Hitler
Fedor von Bock
Gerd von Rundstedt
Walther von Brauchitsch
Wilhelm von Leeb
conflict World War II
endDate 1941-12-05
followedBy Battle of Stalingrad
Case Blue
front Eastern Front
historicalSignificance largest invasion in history by manpower
pivotal campaign determining outcome of World War II in Europe
ideologicalGoal Lebensraum for Germany
destruction of Bolshevism
extermination and enslavement of Slavic populations
involvedUnit Army Group Centre
Army Group North
Heeresgruppe Süd
surface form: Army Group South

Luftwaffe
Red Army
Wehrmacht
location Soviet Union
objective capture of Moscow
conquest of the western Soviet Union
destruction of the Red Army
seizure of Ukraine and the Caucasus
opposedBy Georgy Zhukov
Joseph Stalin
Semyon Timoshenko
partOf Eastern Front
surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
plannedBy Adolf Hitler
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
surface form: German High Command
precededBy Battle of France
surface form: Fall of France

Invasion of Poland
surface form: German invasion of Poland

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
result German strategic failure
Soviet defensive victory
end of German–Soviet non-aggression
opening of the Eastern Front
startDate 1941-06-22
turningPoint shift of strategic initiative to the Soviet Union

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40th Army Corps engagedIn Operation Barbarossa
Army Group B engagedIn Operation Barbarossa
Third Reich notableEvent Operation Barbarossa
Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) partOf Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) partOf Operation Barbarossa
Operation Braunschweig precededBy Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German 1941 offensive Operation Barbarossa
Alfred Jodl participantIn Operation Barbarossa
Maximilian de Angelis participantIn Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Erich von Manstein participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Heinz Guderian tookPartIn Operation Barbarossa
Walther von Brauchitsch participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Wilhelm List participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Fedor von Bock participantIn Operation Barbarossa
Fedor von Bock participantIn Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: Invasion of the Soviet Union
Georg-Hans Reinhardt participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Ewald von Kleist participantIn Operation Barbarossa
Backe Plan implementedDuring Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Backe Plan implementedDuring Operation Barbarossa
Commissar Order conflictContext Operation Barbarossa
Hungary in World War II militaryCampaign Operation Barbarossa
German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue precededBy Operation Barbarossa
subject surface form: Case Blue
Wilhelm von Leeb participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Lebensraum justified Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Gerhard Barkhorn participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Army Group South operation Operation Barbarossa
Army Group South formedFor Operation Barbarossa
Commander of Army Group A involvedIn Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
18th Army (Wehrmacht) notableEngagement Operation Barbarossa
18th Army (Wehrmacht) participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
16th Army (Wehrmacht) notableOperation Operation Barbarossa
Luftflotte 1 (in air support role) campaign Operation Barbarossa
Walther von Reichenau participantIn Operation Barbarossa
Maximilian von Weichs participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Kiev (1941) operation Operation Barbarossa
Army Group A participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
4th Army participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
4th Army tookPartIn Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Karl participantIn Operation Barbarossa
subject surface form: Karl von Rundstedt
Rudolf conflict Operation Barbarossa
subject surface form: Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Donbass defensive operations (1941) partOf Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Donbass defensive operations (1941) partOf Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Odessa (1941) campaign Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: Axis invasion of the Soviet Union
Kharkov defensive operations (1941) partOf Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German 1941 campaign against the Soviet Union
Kharkov defensive operations (1941) partOf Operation Barbarossa
Panzer division majorCampaign Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Smolensk (1941) partOf Operation Barbarossa
Sikorski–Mayski agreement relatedTo Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
Eduard Dietl participantIn Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Uman partOf Operation Barbarossa