When Russian President Vladimir Putin says it was the Soviet Union, not the Western allies, that defeated Nazism and “saved the entire world,” he can point to this date, June 22, as a pivotal moment ...

Sixty-nine-years ago today, 3.5 million German troops, plus another million from Nazi allies, invaded the USSR. (Geographically, the land now makes up Lithuania, Belarus, eastern Poland, Ukraine, and ...

Skorzeny finally reached the front during Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history. Serving with the 2nd SS Panzer Division, he advanced on Moscow—until Soviet resistance and winter ...

In the summer of 1941, as Operation Barbarossa thundered across the Soviet border, massive armored forces collided in western Ukraine near Brody. Thousands of tanks clashed in chaotic, poorly ...

In June 1941, Hitler decides to break the German-Soviet pact and set the German army in motion toward Moscow. From summer to winter, and from Kiev to Leningrad, previously unseen archival footage, ...

After a deluge of bombs from the Luftwaffe, four million soldiers deploy along three axes: south toward Ukraine, central toward Moscow, and north toward Leningrad. The offensive catches the Red Army ...