Operation Barbarossa (22 jun 1941 ano – 7 jan 1942 ano)

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June 22, 1941: Germany BETRAYS the USSR
- Hitler's BIGGEST mistake
- Germany crosses the USSR border
- uses Blitzkrieg on USSR
- the war becomes a two-front war for Germany
- Stalin (USSR) is NOT PREPARED and faces huge losses at first

Einsatzgruppen
- Germany sent special mobile units behind fighting units to kill the Jews in nearby forests/pits
- first large-scale systematic murder of Jews
- beginning of Hitler's Final Solution

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