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THE Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union 80 years ago was based on three strategic objectives Leningrad in the north, Moscow in the centre and the oilfields of Baku in the south. It was to be a war of extermination. The specific battle order to ordinary soldiers includes the word “annihilation.” Moscow was to be flooded and covered over. A research group attached to Barbarossa was calculating how long it would take to starve all the inhabitants of Leningrad to death. One million died, 90 per cent through starvation. Up to 30 million Ukrainians were to be starved to death with their land and property given over to resettled Germans. This was the reality of Lebensraum. All Jews would be killed. With the notorious Commissar Order all communist officials would be killed. ....
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Jonathan Dimbleby s Barbarossa captures the pitiless human cost of war 4/5 German troops on the Russian front line, circa winter 1942 Credit: Getty Images/adoc-photos/Corbis A whiff of megalomania must lure historians who want to understand Operation Barbarossa. In its gargantuan sweep, in its unimaginable casualties, in its gambles and its ruination, in its numbing atrocities (mostly Nazi), in its decisive part in a global war, Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 offers itself as a subject for equally sweeping assertions and atrocious tableaux. In his encyclopedic new account, Jonathan Dimbleby is duly tempted. To call his grasp of detail thorough is the faintest of compliments – obsessively attentive would not be out of place – and over 516 pages his claim is likewise large: that even though three and a half more years of bloodshed would follow, it was Barbarossa’s failed gamble, above all, that sealed Germany’s fate in the Second W ....