Operation Barbarossa - Biggest Land Invasion in History - WW2 - 096a - June 22 1941

June 22 1941. The first day of Operation Barbarossa begins as Adolf Hitlers German armies invade Joseph Stalins Soviet Union with the largest force on the longest front every seen in human history...

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Links Indy mentioned:
Special episode on the tanks of Barbarossa - https://youtu.be/gh7mt2OS770
Special episode on trucks and Barbarossa logistics - https://youtu.be/4lSCnOltYdY
Special episode about Blitzkrieg tactics - https://youtu.be/qej9DX28-xw

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Director: Astrid Deinhard
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Research by: Indy Neidell
Edited by: Iryna Dulka
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

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- Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/
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Sources:
- Mil.ru
- Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0: Bild_146II-277,
- RIA Novosti archive, CC-BY-SA 3.0: image 613694, Shagin
- F l a n k e r from Wikimedia
- The Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music repository at ibiblio.org.
- Les Préludes, Poema sinfonico n°, Franz List and Herbert von Karajan (dir), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Via Marco Calvo, http://www.marcocalvo.it/

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