In 1941, he served first as Chief Propaganda Section General Staff (Romania's Propaganda Minister) and then as a Romanian liaison officer to the German Military Mission, meaning that he served as a German military officer during Operation Barbarossa and the Axis Invasion of the Soviet Union.
During the planning phase of Operation Barbarossa, General Thomas' pragmatic and realistic nature once again gripped him as he thought a full-scale war with the Soviet Union should be delayed until the logistical concerns were remedied.
The CSIR was a mobile infantry and cavalry unit of the Italian army that took part in Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union.
On 11 September 1941 (three months after the German invasion of the USSR), Spiridonova and over 150 other political prisoners (among them Christian Rakovsky and Olga Kameneva), were executed in Medvedev Forest outside Oryol.
After the German attack to Soviet Union, from June 29 to July 1 more 2080 Latvian soldiers were demobilsed, fearing that they might turn their weapons against the Russian commissars and officers.
Idea of heavy multipurpose tractor, intended for prepared invasion of the Soviet Union supposedly came from Adolf Hitler.
He served in the Air Department of the General Staff when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
Following Operation Barbarossa they deported about 700 Jewish residents of town to extermination camps.
The German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa began on June 22, 1941, and by September the occupied territory was divided between two German administrative units the General Government and the Reichskommissariat Ukraine.
On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), and Sassen volunteered for the German Eastern front.
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It saw service in the Battle of France and spent the rest of the war on the Eastern Front, participating in Operation Barbarossa, the Siege of Sevastopol, the Siege of Leningrad and helped to put down the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.
The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa and took over the city within days.
During the German invasion of the Soviet Union he was a Panzersoldat and seriously wounded on the Eastern Front.
A component, the Fast Troops Group Kalinčiak took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941, advancing under Army Group South.
Prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, the German armed forces were not aware of two newly developed Soviet tanks, the T-34 and the KV.
In July 1941 he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class at Demjansk during the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and the German Cross in Gold in September 1942 at Lake Ilmen.
In 1941 after German invasion of the Soviet Union, he continued to help various refugees, among them, Jews hiding from the Nazis, and working with medical services of Polish resistance organization Armia Krajowa.
The player controls German Waffen-SS and Heer officer Fritz Kraemer; who was responsible for commanding troops in major World War II operations like Operation Barbarossa (which are included in the game).
In late 1941, after German invasion of Soviet Union, Andrzej Sapieha returned to the castle, which had been used as barracks for soldiers of the Red Army (see Molotov Line).
The Rădăuți-Lipcani bridge was built up in 1937 and blasted up in 1941 by retreating Red Army, during the German-led invasion of the Soviet Union.
The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa and a week later, on June 30, 1941 overran the city of Lwów.
From July 1940, Purkayev served as the Chief of Staff of the Kiev Special Military District, and from the start of the Soviet-German War serving as the Chief of Staff of the Southwestern Front (June-July 1941), and later the 60th Army and 3rd Shock Army.
As a teacher, poet and Ukrainian patriot she would have been a likely target of the NKVD, both before the invasion by Nazi Germany in 1941 and during Joseph Stalin's post-war campaign against Ukrainian nationalism.
The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on 22 June 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa.
During the evacuation of the Soviet Navy from Tallinn to Kronstadt during Operation Barbarossa, Yakov Sverdlov was assigned as an escort to the flagship Kirov.
Between 1941 and 1945 all television broadcasts in the nation were interrupted because of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.
He participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), in 1941 where he was awarded the Knight's Cross in September 1941 while in command of the 3rd SS Reconnaissance Battalion, SS Totenkopf.