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The Battle of Russia (1943) is the fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight documentary series. The longest film of the series, it has two parts. It was made in collaboration with Russian-born Anatole Litvak as primary director under Capra's supervision.
The Battle of Russia: Directed by Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak. With Ion Antonescu, Nikolay Cherkasov, Anthony Eden, Alexander Edler von Daniels. Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
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- Documentary, History, War
- Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- 1943-11-11
- German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
- Eastern Front
- Operation Barbarossa Begins
- Attack on Moscow
- Failure of Operation Barbarossa
- Sources
In August 1939, Germany signed a mutual non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, then led by Joseph Stalin, in which the two nations agreed not to take military action against each other for a period of 10 years. Given the long history of bitter conflict between the two nations, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact surprised the world and dismayed France ...
On September 3, 1939, two days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, France and Britain declared war on Germany. After eight months of so-called phony war, Germany launched its blitzkrieg(“lightning war”) through Western Europe, conquering Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France in just six weeks beginning in May 1940. With France defeated and...
Hitler hoped to repeat the success of the blitzkrieg in Western Europe and win a quick victory over the massive nation he viewed as Germany’s sworn enemy. On June 22, 1941, more than 3 million German and Axis troops invaded the Soviet Union along an 1,800-mile-long front, launching Operation Barbarossa. It was Germany’s largest invasion force of th...
While they made territorial gains, German forces also sustained heavy casualties, as the Soviets’ numerical advantage and the strength of their resistance proved greater than expected. By the end of August, with German Panzer divisions just 220 miles from the Soviet capital, Hitler ordered—over the protests of his generals—that the drive against Mo...
Despite its territorial gains and the damage inflicted on the Red Army, Operation Barbarossa failed in its primary objective: to force the Soviet Union to capitulate. Though Hitler blamed the winter weather for the failure of the Moscow offensive, the entire operation had suffered from a lack of long-term strategic planning. Counting on a quick vic...
Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Failure in the Soviet Union. Imperial War Museums. Anthony Beevor, “Operation Barbarossa: why Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union was his greatest mistake.” BBC: History Extra, March 3, 2021. Norman Stone, World War II: A Short History. (Basic Books, 2013).
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May 6, 2024 · Battle of Stalingrad, (July 17, 1942–February 2, 1943), successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II. Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict.
Battle of Moscow, battle fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from September 30, 1941 to January 7, 1942, during World War II. It was the climax of Nazi Germany’s Operation Barbarossa, and it ended the Germans’ intention to capture Moscow, which ultimately doomed the Third Reich.
Nov 9, 2009 · The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. Germany's defeat in the battle marked a...
Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War.
