
Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on June 22, 1941. Mediterranean Sea – East Africa – North Africa – West Africa – Balkans (1939–41) – Middle East – Yugoslavia – Madagascar – ItalyĬhina – Pacific Ocean – South-East Asia – South West Pacific – Japan – ManchuriaĪtlantic – Strategic Bombing – North AmericaĬhinese Civil – Soviet-Japanese Border – French-Thai – Anglo-Iraqi – Invasion of Iran – Greek Civil – Sino-Japanese – Ecuadorian-Peruvian

The Mediterranean, Africa and The Middle East Poland – Phoney War – Finland – Denmark & Norway – France & Benelux – Britain – Eastern Front – North West Europe (1944–45) īrest – Bialystok-Minsk – Raseiniai – Brody – Smolensk – Uman – 1st Kiev – Yelnya – Odessa – Leningrad – 1st Kharkov – 1st Crimea – 1st Rostovīarbarossa – Baltic Sea – Finland – Leningrad and Baltics – Crimea and Caucasus – Moscow – 1st Rzhev-Vyazma – 2nd Kharkov – Blue – Stalingrad – Velikiye Luki – 2nd Rzhev-Sychevka – Kursk – 2nd Smolensk – Dnieper – 2nd Kiev – Korsun – Hube's Pocket – Baltic – Bagration – Lvov-Sandomierz – Lublin-Brest – Balkans (Iassy-Kishinev) – Balkans (Budapest) – Vistula-Oder – East Prussia – East Pomerania – Silesia – Berlin – Prague – Vienna Īt least 802,191 killed, unknown wounded, and some 3,300,000 captured. *Almost 918,000 killed, wounded and missing.

Initial Axis operational victories, overall Axis strategic failureģ5-40,000 aircraft (11,357 combat ready on June 22, 1941) Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Western Russia Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
