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  1. 1 day ago · 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. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history ...

  2. 4 days ago · Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, June 22, 1941. Hitler and his generals had originally scheduled the invasion of the U.S.S.R. for mid-May 1941, but the unforeseen necessity of invading Yugoslavia and Greece in April of that year forced them to postpone the Soviet campaign to late June.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › OdesaOdesa - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · 2023–. Odesa (also spelled Odessa) [a] is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre.

  4. 1 day ago · Axis prisoners of war (Germans, Italians, Romanians, Hungarians) Soviet troops fighting in a destroyed workshop. Sturmgeschütz III, operated by the German Wehrmacht. Date. 17 July 1942 [Note 2] – 2 February 1943 [Note 3] (6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days) Location. Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. 48°42′N 44°31′E.

  5. May 13, 2024 · Battle of Crete, airborne assault by Nazi Germany on the Greek island of Crete during World War II that took place from May 20 to June 1, 1941.. After the abject failure of a British expedition to defend Greece against German attack, remnants of the British and Commonwealth force were evacuated to Crete, an island of strategic importance to both sides, commanding shipping lanes to the Black ...

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  6. May 19, 2024 · en.wikipedia.org Nina Onilova. Nina Andreyevna Onilova (Russian: Нина Андреевна Онилова, Ukrainian: Ніна Андріївна Онілова; 10 April 1921 – 8 March 1942) was a Soviet machine gunner in the Red Army's 25th Rifle Division who fought the Germans near Odessa and Sevastopol from 1941 to 1942.

  7. May 13, 2024 · Some major operations that could be done on this map include Operation München (July 1941), the Siege of Odessa (August-October 1941), the Odessa offensive (March-April 1944) and the First (April-June 1944) and Second (August 1944) Iași-Chișinău offensives. All in all a very interesting area that should provide lots of content for fans of ...

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