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Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (German: Friedrich I; Italian: Federico I), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later in 1190. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152.
Jun 15, 2011 · Operation Barbarossa, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.
Jun 29, 2024 · Barbarossa, Barbary pirate, appointed admiral of the Ottoman fleet in 1533, by whose initiative Algeria and Tunisia became part of the Ottoman Empire. For three centuries after his death, Mediterranean coastal towns and villages were ravaged by his successors.
Jun 6, 2024 · Learn More. Frederick I, duke of Swabia (as Frederick III, 1147–90) and German king and Holy Roman emperor (1152–90), who challenged papal authority and sought to establish German predominance in western Europe. He died while on the Third Crusade to the Holy Land.
Oct 29, 2009 · Operation Barbarossa, Adolf Hitler’s codename for Nazi Germany’s massive 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, was ultimately a costly failure.
Be careful about superlatives, that is, until you’re talking about Operation Barbarossa, the surprise German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 and the nearly four years of war that followed on what the Germans called “the Eastern Front.”
Just 20 miles short of their objective, the Soviets launched a counter-attack forcing the Germans onto the defensive. It was Hitler's first defeat on land in the Second World War. Find out why Hitler failed to defeat Russia and what caused Operation Barbarossa to fail. View video transcript.
Feb 29, 2020 · Operation Barbarossa played a major role in Nazi genocide, as mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, closely followed invading German troops. Hitler's late 1941 attack on Moscow failed, and a vicious counterattack forced German forces back from the Soviet capital.
Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in "Operation Barbarossa." In accordance with previous agreements between SS and police and Wehrmacht representatives, German mobile units of Security Police and SD officials, called Einsatzgruppen , followed the frontline troops into the Soviet Union.
