History of War

THE THIRD REICH IN PHOTOS DEATH STRUGGLE OF 1941

CHANGE OF TYRANTS JULY 1941

 A RUSSIAN CIVILIAN UNVEILS A NEW POSTER, THE NAME OF HITLER SPELLED OUT IN CYRILLIC LETTERS

History’s short-term memory, facilitated by Soviet efforts to fog over the perfidious treachery, often fails to recall that arch-enemies Nazi Germany and the USSR teamed up to destroy Poland in September 1939 under the banner of their infamous non-aggression pact. That partnership would end violently on 22 June 1941 when German forces swept into the Soviet Union. Hitler was intent on utterly destroying what he saw as the foundation of communism and ‘World Jewry’, and in the process gaining huge territories and resources for the Third Reich, to further the goal of dominating Europe and enslaving or exterminating its peoples.

The Germans called

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