Operation Barbarossa
- Barbarossa "Red Beard" code name German attack on Russia
- Complete surprise on Russia sepite warnings
- Breaks non agression act
- 2000 mile long front
- Blitzkrieg tactics surprise Red Army
- Nazis briefly seen as liberators
- Russian Peasants began Scorched earth policy (burning all crops)
- Leningrad was beseiged captured Kiev. Reached the Crimea and on the outskirts of Moscow
- Cold winter halts germany
- Almost 2 million Red Army troops taken prisoner
Summary: A plan which the Germans had for Russia in order to infiltrate and invade Russia. They were halted luckily by the weather and the inability for the Germans to hand the cold.