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June 22, 1941: Nazi Germany unleashes history’s largest invasion force (three million troops) against Soviet Russia along an 1,800-mile front stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov into the Caucasus. Germany and its military allies and partners, including troops from Finland, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Italy, Croatia and the Baltic states, fight their way to Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad in the deadliest ground campaign the world has known.
A Soviet Red Army soldier from Brest is wounded in an artillery attack and goes into a coma. Exactly nineteen days before the 80th anniversary of the German and allied Operation Barbarossa, the soldier, now 98-years-old, comes to again in a nursing home in Minsk.
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The remains of 500 victims have been found, many showing gunshot wounds and evidence of torture. Other inmates found at the Russian camp are believed to have died from malnutrition, disease.