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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Rostov defensive operations geopoliticalContext Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa)
German summer offensive of 1942 precededBy Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
German summer offensive of 1942 precededBy Operation Barbarossa
Army corps of the Wehrmacht Heer usedInConflict Operation Barbarossa
1941 defensive operations of the Red Army hasCause Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Battle of the Sea of Azov operationContext Operation Barbarossa
Southern sector of the Eastern Front startEvent Operation Barbarossa
Soviet 12th Army participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Rostov (1941) partOf Operation Barbarossa
Donets Basin defensive operation partOf Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic significantEvent Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina followedBy Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: Axis invasion of the Soviet Union
Holocaust in Latvia significantEvent Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Holocaust in Latvia significantEvent Operation Barbarossa
Arajs Kommando formedAfter Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union precededBy Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Police Battalion 303 activeDuring Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa southern sector partOf Operation Barbarossa
Soviet embassy to the Polish government-in-exile relatedToEvent Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
German Army Group Centre offensive partOf Operation Barbarossa
German Army Group Centre offensive partOf Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Uman pocket partOf Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Brody (1941) partOf Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Brody (1941) partOfMilitaryOperation Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Adolf Strauss participantIn Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Battle of Vyazma partOf Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Vyazma theater Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Richard Ruoff participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
17. Armee involvedIn Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa (Northern sector) partOf Operation Barbarossa
Commander of Army Group North notableOperation Operation Barbarossa
6th Panzer Division participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf engagement Operation Barbarossa
XI Army Corps engagement Operation Barbarossa
German Army Group A notableOperation Operation Barbarossa
German Army Group A participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
German 2nd Panzer Group operation Operation Barbarossa
German 2nd Army participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
German 2nd Army participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: Invasion of the Soviet Union
10th Panzer Division participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
royal Hungarian army engagedIn Operation Barbarossa
subject surface form: Royal Hungarian Army
this entity surface form: Axis invasion of the Soviet Union