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Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War Two podcast.

I'm Angus Wallace. Boyed by their victories over Poland and in the west,

on the 22nd of June 1941, the Germans launched Operation Barbarossa,

when over 3 million men advanced over the border to attack Russia.

The opening of the Eastern Front would be one of Hitler's most

menacist decisions of the war. The attack took stallion by surprise,

having only signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939.

The opening weeks of the offensive were wildly successful for the Germans,

but as the Panzer formations rapidly advanced, the infantry struggled on foot to keep up.

At Kiev, the Germans would take over half a million Russian soldiers prisoner.

Barbarossa was a campaign where one divisional commander queried if the Germans were

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