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“The Barbarossa Cataclysm”
August 1941
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On the 22nd of June, 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, breaking their fragile peace. What followed was unprecedented destruction on a scale never seen in human history. Throughout the war on the Eastern Front, millions of soldiers and civilians would perish in the vast arithmetic of war. The front was a grinding bloodbath which only came to an end when Soviet forces surrounded and captured Berlin in the spring of 1945, leading to the eventual surrender of the 3rd Reich. Of the estimated 70-80 million deaths in WWII, a staggering 30 million occurred on the Eastern Front.