Hitler authorised the invasion of the Soviet Union on the 18th of December, 1940 with an outlined start date of May the 15th, 1941. On the 22nd of June, 1941 Nazi, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military operation of World War II. It was the biggest land invasion in the history of the world. As over three million German soldiers and their allies drove forward in three sections into the Soviet Union. The attack was named ‘Operation Barbarossa’ .
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