Chiunque cada in un accerchiamento e chiunque preferisce arrendersi dovrà essere eliminato ad ogni costo, mentre la sua famiglia verrà privata di tutti i benefici dell’assistenza dello Stato”.Numerosi soldati sovietici feriti e catturati dai nazisti riuscirono a sopravvivere nei campi di concentramento fino a quando non furono liberati nel 1945.
The Russians succeeded in crushing various German formations in encirclements of their own. And the weather was beginning to turn.Once again the initial assault was a success. The Red Army had been viewed with distain, especially because Stalin’s purges of the late 1930s had removed thousands of its officers - albeit temporarily in most cases. Russian forces in this sector were thinly spread and the panzers covered 500 miles (804 km) in three weeks. The British Army's role was pivotal, but victory came at a price.
These light tanks were completely outclassed, even by older Soviet models, but were used in some numbers during 'Barbarossa' to make up for the shortfall in PzKpfw III and IV production.
But when Hitler resumed the assault with Operation 'Typhoon' it was too late. The depleted German units were exhausted and frozen into inactivity in the deep snow.On 5 December the Soviets launched a surprise counter-offensive. Over three and a half million German and other Axis troops attacked along a 1,800-mile front. However, they still lagged many miles behind the panzer spearheads. Over half the tanks committed to 'Barbarossa' were obsolescent light tanks and Czech-built models, rather than the more capable PzKpfw III and IV. Questi disertori saranno fucilati sul posto. A PzKpfw III command tank and despatch riders from Guderian's Panzer Group 2, part of Army Group Centre. Even in mid-1941 only 250 new tanks were being built each month, insufficient to properly equip the army on the eve of a major new campaign, or keep up with the inevitable mechanical and combat losses. (l'Operazione Barbarossa, iniziata il 21 giugno 1941), le forze tedesche sono sul punto di conquistare una delle città più ricche e popolose dell'impero di Stalin, ma si trovano di fronte a un'improvvisa, disperata resistenza destinata a durare, in condizioni terribili, oltre ogni limite immaginabile.
Hoth's Panzer Group 3 was sent north to support the drive on Leningrad while Guderian's tanks were despatched to help Army Group South take Kiev.
They mistakenly assumed that the campaign would be a short one, and that the Soviets would give in after suffering the shock of massive initial defeats.
Sono passati settantadue anni dalla sconfitta del nazifascismo, ma l’Europa e il mondo intero stanno attraversando un momento delicatissimo della loro storia. German Orders of Battle five days after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. By 28 June Panzer Group 2, led by General Heinz Guderian, and General Hermann Hoth's Panzer Group 3 had encircled three Russian armies and captured over 320,000 men in the Bialystok-Minsk pockets. No western enemy would come close to the Soviets in sheer staying power.Despite the failure and huge losses of 'Barbarossa', Hitler launched another major strategic offensive in June 1942, this time towards the Caucasus mountains and the oil fields of Baku beyond. Visita il sito: https://operazionebarbarossa.weebly.com/ Operazione Barbarossa - Il conflitto russo / tedesco 1941-1945 6 - I mezzi corazzati. Army Group Centre was pushed back up to 150 miles from Moscow. I soldati mandati al fronte non si rendevano conto di far parte di un esercito di aggressori mandati a morire per niente in quella maledetta guerra voluta da Hitler e Mussolini. Posed photo of Russian troops wearing snow camouflage, purportedly taken during the counteroffensive in December 1941. It was the largest invasion force to date.The German forces were split into three army groups, each with a specific objective. “disumanizzare i sovietici” era l’obiettivo cosicché tutto diventava lecito: ogni tipo di sevizie e di massacri, lo sterminio razziale, rappresaglie collettive. Al di là dell’impiego della Wehrmacht, le forze armate regolari,ANPI Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia - Sezione del Miranese "Martiri di Mirano",https://www.italiarussiafotografia.com/kopiya-0065-il-cammino-luminoso?lightbox=dataItem-ivjjvlwf,processo Norimberga 1948… promemoria 2018,Foto: Festa della Liberazione, 25 Aprile 2010,Sulla Modernizzazione (o riarmo?)
Some were rushed into service too quickly and proved notoriously unreliable. In pericolo è anche la convivenza civile messa seriamente in discussione dagli attentati jihadisti che hanno colpito numerose città europee, come quello avvenuto a San Pietroburgo il 3 aprile scorso che ha causato 14 vittime innocenti, alle quali va il nostro commosso ricordo. (© IWM HU 111382) 114 talking about this. OPERATION 'BARBAROSSA' On 18 December 1940 Hitler issued Führer Directive 21, an order for the invasion of the Soviet Union. He intended to destroy what he saw as Stalin's 'Jewish Bolshevist' regime and establish Nazi hegemony.
Weary German troops of Army Group North, their faces caked in dust, cross a bridge near Jonava in Lithuania.
Guderian and several other senior generals who advised withdrawal were sacked.
Solo 1.800.000 prigionieri ritornarono in patria dei 4.500.000 catturati dalla Wehrmacht.