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The day the world caught fire
PHIL KATZ charts the run-up to the most formidable and deadly invasion in the history of mankind – Operation Barbarossa – which took place 80 years ago today
The German Wehrmacht nearby Pruzhany, Belarus, in June 1941
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TODAY is the 80th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, when the German army and the full force of Hitler fascism attacked the Soviet Union, without warning, in breach of a non-aggression pact.
Operation Barbarossa took place at lightning pace on a sunny Sunday morning, June 22 1941, and immediately became the most formidable and deadly invasion in the history of mankind.
Worse was to follow. Much worse. Hitler referred to the assault as a “Vernichtungskrieg.” It was a war of destruction. The war for territory was a by-product of a war to the death between two world systems.
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