Introduction

Operation Barbarossa talks about the instantaneous invasion of Germany to Soviet Union during the Second World War (WW2), which was supposed to be defeated in an attack of only around two months. The last plan of Hitler was to proceed simultaneously with three military groups, that were supposed to move correctly with the aim of encircle or fence the soviet army. Adolf Hitler, also known as “the Fürher” named the operation “Barbarossa” in honor of Federic I and his beard’s color.

The idea of Adolf Hitler was to invade URSS with the aim of expand to the East with his thought of “living space”, although this was an old German idea of the First World War (WW1). As Hitler wrote on his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle), the war with the Soviet Union is a conflict between Europe and Asia: the idea was to eliminate and stop those Asians who make run the European and national-socialist “New Order”. As we already mention, the gained territory will convert into the “living space” which will satisfied the necessities of land and raw material for the German society for centuries.

The invasion was first scheduled for May 15, but Mussolini's intervention in East Africa against British Somalia and his abortive invasion of Greece during the winter of 1940 delay the operation, and in this situation Hitler declare the invasion of Greece (Operation Marita). Not enough, Hitler also sort the invasion of Yugoslavia as an answer of its coup.

In the midnight of Sunday 22 of June, in 1941, Germans start with more than 4 million people, with 4000 tanks and 4000 airplanes, making the most bigger and important operation in all history. At first the Soviet army was collapsed as all was planned. The Luftwaffe (German Air Force during Hitler’s period) in a little period of time destroyed the most important airplanes of the Soviet’s air force after they can take off.