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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorne. On the 22nd of June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

Operation Barbarossa was the largest invasion in history up to that point, and represented a colossal gamble for Hitler's regime.

The ensuing six months saw a titanic, murderous battle between the two totalitarian regimes

that would ultimately decide the outcome of the entire war.

80 years on, the events of Barbarossa have been chronicled in a new book

by the historian, author and broadcaster Jonathan Dumbullby.

And in today's episode,

he recounts these dramatic events in conversation with BBC History Magazine editor, Rob Atar.

The subtitle of your book is How Hitler Lost the War. So is it fair to say in your view that

these six months are the decisive moment of the entire conflict? I think there's no question that when you look at what happened in Operation Barbarossa

and see how the situation was by the end of the year, it is inconceivable that Hitler could have prevailed against the Soviet Union.

The resources that have been expended by the Wehrmacht were huge.

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