The Russian Front

Hitler planned to attack the USSR for several reasons:

Russian Front
SIC. Eastern Front 1941-06 to 1941-12 (CC BY-SA)
  • He wanted living space for the “natural development” of the German  people (lebensraum)
  • He wanted to destroy the Communist system.
  • He wanted resources such as oil and grain.
  • He wanted to use the Slav peoples as slave labours.

The German invasion of the USSR, named Operation Barbarossa, began on  22nd June 1941. Hitler had planned three attacks on the major cities of the USSR (Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad).The German forces made a rapid and massive advance into the USSR. Most of the soviet air force was destroyed on the ground, and over 700,000 soviet troops were captured.

                                                                                                                       

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