Forget Stalingrad: The Battle of Moscow Was World War II s First Major Turning Point
When German armies invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Hitler thought victory would be quick and easy. It was neither.
Here s What You Need to Know: After 1941, the Germans would never again threaten Moscow.
Many consider the Battle of Moscow in late 1941 to be the first turning point of World War II on the Eastern Front. Some even consider the battle for Moscow as the only opportunity for the Germans to prevail in the East. By the middle of 1942, the Soviets had organized enough troops under arms that the Germans could not hope for anything better than a negotiated peace.
Invading Russia Was Hitler s First Suicidal Moment
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Resolute: The Battle of Moscow Was a Total Bloodbath
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Perhaps it wasn’t Operation Overlord that defeated Hitler, but the failure of Operation Barbarossa
9 April 2021 • 5:00am
Jonathan Dimbleby: Like many of my generation, I was brought up to assume that it was the British, supported by the Americans, who beat Hitler
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Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 was the biggest, bloodiest and most barbarous military enterprise in the history of warfare. The purpose of Operation Barbarossa, as the Führer codenamed it, was also the most decisive campaign of the Second World War. Had he achieved its objective – the annihilation of the Soviet Union – he would have been the master of Europe’s destiny. As it was, by the time his armies had reached the gates of Moscow less than six months later, any prospect he might once have had of realising his delusional vision of a Thousand Year Reich had already vanished.