B ARBAROSSA Jazmarel Brinson| Kennie Rebecca |May,5 th,2014

BACKROUND beginning 22 June 1941 Barbarossa also know as the operation of Barbarossa which was the code name for Germany’s invasion Most powerful invasion in history Stalin ignored warnings for fellow soldiers because he trust Hitler

INFORMATION Hitler signs the nonaggression pact which agreed that both countries will not attack each others. Two Years later invades Russia. About four million soldiers of the Nazi invaded the USSR Nazi invaded Russia because Hitler wanted to conquer the Soviet territories

INFORMATION The invasion covered the north cape to the black sea. (two thousand miles) In just about a week, German forces destroyed about 4,000 aircraft, killed, captured, and wounded about 600,000 Red Army troops. Germany's plans have failed.

RESULTS the Germans won the war and took most important economic areas of the Soviet Union After this the Russians began to fight back leaving the Germans to eventually stop. the German air force had destroyed more than 1,000 Soviet aircraft

P RIMARY SOURCE world.com/webpages/M Hock/files/lesson%236- stations.doc.pdf

L EGACY Germany is supporting Soviet Union economy. Chancellor Helmut Kohl delivers an address on Soviet television and speaks to German people. German publishers have bought out numbers of new books about Barbarossa.