The planning for Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, took nearly a year and went through a variety of scenarios. The basic plan was finalized in December 1940, and that month General ...
Introduction -- Politics 1940-1941. Europe in July 1940 ; Hitler's ideology and strategy ; The monstrous scheme : a Greater Germanic empire ; Stalin's ideology and strategy -- The eve of war. The ...
Romanian Air Force joined the invasion on the USSR from the first day. It eventually fought against two more major powers in WW2 and produced a significant number of fighter aces. Several fighter ...