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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Joachim Lemelsen participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Western USSR wasInvolvedIn Operation Barbarossa
SS-Standarte Deutschland engagedIn Operation Barbarossa
Sonderkommando 4a formedDuring Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union
Sonderkommando 4a operation Operation Barbarossa
Panzerjäger I usedInOperation Operation Barbarossa
Gustav Anton von Wietersheim participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Soviet Northwestern Front participatedIn Operation Barbarossa
Georg Lindemann participantIn Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Raseiniai partOf Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Raseiniai partOf Operation Barbarossa
this entity surface form: German invasion of the Soviet Union