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: https://www.barbarossa1941.com/
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