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First day of Battle... Nazis vs. Russia...
First day of Battle... Nazis vs. Russia...
Item # 724063
June 23, 1941
LOS ANGELES EXAMINER, War Extra, June 23, 1941
* Germany vs. Russia - 1st Day
* Operation Barbarossa
* World War II, WWII
The front page has a nice banner headline: "RUSS ATTACK PRUSSIA!; Germany Claims 40 Red Planes Downed; Starts Drive for Wheatlands of Ukraine" with subhead related photo. (see images) Nice for display.
Complete with 28 pages, nice condition.
background: Operation Barbarossa was Nazi Germany’s massive invasion of the Soviet Union, launched on June 22, 1941, and it became the largest and most consequential land campaign in history. Planned as a lightning war, Hitler aimed to destroy the Red Army in a few months, seize vast territory for Lebensraum, and eliminate what he saw as “Judeo-Bolshevism.” Nearly 3 million Axis troops, supported by thousands of tanks and aircraft, advanced along three main axes toward Leningrad, Moscow, and Ukraine. Initial German successes were dramatic, with huge Soviet encirclements and staggering losses, but the campaign stalled as distances grew, supply lines broke down, Soviet resistance stiffened, and the brutal Russian winter set in. The failure to capture Moscow by the end of 1941 marked a strategic turning point: the war became a prolonged, attritional struggle that Germany was not equipped to win. Barbarossa also unleashed unprecedented brutality, including mass executions, starvation policies, and the escalation of the Holocaust in occupied Soviet territories—making it not just a military operation, but a war of annihilation that ultimately led to Germany’s defeat on the Eastern Front.
Category: The 20th Century
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