Author Craig W.H. Luther joins us to compare two anniversaries on the same date, 22 June, three years apart: Operations Barbarossa in 1941, and Operation Bagration in 1944. 

Craig W.H. Luther

The First Day on the Eastern Front: Germany Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941 

Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow, June–December 1941 

Guderian’s Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat on the Eastern Front, 1941
 
Map 1: Operation Barbarossa, 22 June 1941

 
Map 2: The Byelorussian balcony, June 1944

 
Map 3: Operation Blue, summer 1942

 
Craig W.H. Luther Archive: <a href='https://www.barbarossa1941.com/'>https://www.barbarossa1941.com/</a>

Operation Bagration: Episode 78

You know about Stalingrad, the siege of Leningrad, maybe Kursk. But how well do you know the history of  the ”Russian front” of the Second World War? Join this detailed description of the largest part of WW2 in Europe, the titanic clash between tyrants Hitler and Stalin.
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