20. Jahrhundert: 1914-1945 | Zweiter Weltkrieg
War of Annihilation Against the Soviet Union
In June 1941, the Wehrmacht invades the Soviet Union with more than 3 million soldiers. An unprecedented and cruel war of extermination begins, fighting for "living space in the East" and eliminating the supposedly ideological enemy. Accompanied by brutal crimes against the civilian population, the German army advances thousands of kilometres into the East. Only the onset of winter, a lack of supplies and a large-scale counteroffensive by the Red Army cause the "Operation Barbarossa" to fail outside Moscow. Together with the defeat of the 6th Army in Stalingrad in the winter of 1942/43, this marks the turning point on the Eastern Front. From now on, the Wehrmacht is in permanent retreat.
mehr
weniger
Russia, Eastern Front, attack, invasion, campaign, Stalin, war of ideology and competing worldviews, annihilation, political commissioner, sub-humans, Lebensraum in the East, Wehrmacht, war of economic conquest, food supplies, raw material, civilian population, death by starvation, winter, cold temperatures, hunger, winter equipment, Red Army, Moscow, Blitzkrieg, Adolf Hitler, commander-in-chief of the army, Stalingrad, 6th Army division, defeat, retreat
Geeignet für die Fächer:
Geschichte
Empfehlung der Medienbegutachtung Baden-Württemberg für den Geschichtsunterricht
