Summary.
German attacking Russia using blitzkrieg tactics. These tactics were designed to capture countries the size of france. The amount of soldiers deployed by Germany were hard to keep stocked on the bad soviet roads.
Operation Barbarossa
- Code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II
- Began on 22 June 1941
- Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km front
- Operation Barbarossa's failure led to Hitler's demands for further operations inside the USSR
- Further operations also failed like operation barbarrosa