Almost 27 million Russians died in WW 2. And operation barbarossa was the bloodiest conflict in human history. My guess would b around 23-25 million. The numbers are rather sad really. Especially when u think about the unarmed charging Russians.
29 Soviet Divisions/Armies were involved with Operation Barbarossa.
They are;
I think only 2 persons died. I think only 2 persons died.
802,191 Soviet Soldiers were killed during Operation Barbarossa. 3.35 Million Soviet Soldiers were taken as Prisoners of War.
3.35 Million Soviets were captured as Prisoners of War.
Approximately 20 million .
4.5 million Wehrmacht troops
5 million
Operation Barbarossa wasn't a Battle, their was many battles which happened during Operation Barbarossa, Operation Barbarossa started on 22nd June 1941.
The significanse of Operation Barbarossa was that it was an Operation launched by Nazi Germany in June 22nd 1941 and the aim was to tale all of the Soviet Union which was in Europe and a later aim was to make the Soviet union fall and submit to Germany. The Soviets knew Germany was going attack them so thats why Starlin signed the Nazi-Soviet pact. The strengths of the Operation was Germany:4.5 Million Infantry, 5,500 Tanks, 4,500 Aircraft and 46,000 Artillery Gun USSR: 5 million Infanry, 15,000 Tanks, 12,000 Aircraft. The Invasion of the Soviet Union was split into 3 groups Army Group North, Central and South. The Stages of the Invasion was; Phase 1: FrontLine Battles -This was to destroy Sovier Defensive Lines in Poland and in western Soviet Union. Phase 2: Battle of Smolensk, This suppose to be the time when Panzer Divisions would storm the Soviet Defences but was hault due to the Weather conditons e.g. Mud. Phase 3: Kiev and Leningrad: This was Germany's biggest go on taking the Soviet Union but was hault at Leningrad and at Kiev Germany losted many. Phase 4: Battle of Moscow, This was when Germany suppose to take the Soviet Union. This happened During Soviet counter offence: Operation Typhoon. After this it ended the German advance to Moscow but instead to Stalingrad which was the Final advance on the Eastern Front by Nazi German Forces The key priorities of the Germanys was to Conqeur; Leningrad, Moscow, Baltics, Smolensk, Kiev, Volga and Caucasus. These were Major areas for Germany to take because these contained Oil, Food reserves, Major Key Soviet Transport Links and Armed Factories.
The main causes of German failure were the underestimated capabilities of the Soviet Union and the fierce resistance of the Soviet Army, and planning of the war turned out to be faulty from the lack of coherent mutually supporting phased goals, to the hugely inadequate logistical scheme. The grave situation in which the beleaguered German army found itself towards the end of 1941 was due to the increasing strength of the Red Army, compounded by a number of factors which in the short run severely restricted the effectiveness of the German forces. Chief among these were their overstretched deployment, a serious transport crisis affecting supply and movement, extreme weather and the eroded strength of most divisions. The infantry deficit that appeared by 1 September 1941 was never made good. For the rest of the war in the Soviet Union, the Wehrmacht would be short of infantry and support services. Parallels have been drawn with Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
The two tactical errors committed by Adolph Hitler which had strategical ramifications were the failure to capture the enemy capital of Moscow and changing the point of attack (Schwerpunkt) to the Caucasus and the oilfields therein . (Not errors at the time but later developed into strategical blunders .)
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During Operation Barbarossa, it's known that 57,000 Germans were captured and 3.35 Million Soviets Captured as POWs.
Operation Barbarossa wasn't a Battle, their was many battles which happened during Operation Barbarossa, Operation Barbarossa started on 22nd June 1941.
3,542,837 Soldiers were wounded during Operation Barbarossa.
Operation Barbarossa was launched in the Summer - 22 June 1941 .
It's very hard to tell due to the Soviets didn't mark the locations of the houses and Germany just bombed the USSR without fully looking at where they were bombing but at least 750,000 houses were bombed during Operation Barbarossa. Most of the areas in Operation Barbarossa was just fields and open land.
It's Barbarossa, not Barbossa. Operation Barbarossa was the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, during World war 2.
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.
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the German attack plan for the attack on the Soviet Union.
The Germans had a significant contingent of Romanian forces allied to the Germans during the invasion of Russia .
The end of May 1941 is when the blitz ended :))
A obvious one was the actual battle of Stalingrad. During this battle, numerous operation were launched which were by the Soviets. These operations were called: Operation Saturn, Operation , Operation Winter Storm, Little Saturn and Operation Koltso. These operations were offensive operations by the Soviets to fight back the German military and by of which leaded to the Nazis first major defeat.