The code name for this invasion was Operation Barbarossa.
Operation Barbarossa began with the German invasion of Russia 22 June 1941 .
When the Nazis retreated from Battle of Britain, they launched Operation Barbarossa, which was the invasion into the Soviet union.
Operation Barbarossa
The German invasion of Russia .
Operation Barbarossa
It's Barbarossa, not Barbossa. Operation Barbarossa was the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, during World war 2.
No. Barbarossa was the German invasion of Russia and brought Russia into the conflict.
Operation Barbarossa was the Nazi Germany invasion of Soviet Union in World War II that was launched on June 22, 1941.
Barbarossa was three years before Overlord (D-Day).
It wasn't a war, it was an operation during World War 2. Operation Barbarossa was the codename for the German invasion of Soviet Russia in 1941. Pretty decisive stuff.
The major reason for Operation Barbarossa was the Nazis' term Rassenkampf (racial struggle). Operation Barbarossa was an invasion of the Soviet Union directed against Slavs, Jews, and Marxists. Goebbels (the Nazi propagandist) called the Russians: "not a people but an conglomeration of animals". The invasion of the Soviet Union was openly a "war of extermination".