21) for a start date of, but this would not be met, and instead the invasion began on 22 June 1941. The invasion was authorized by Hitler on 18 December 1940 (Directive No. Operation Barbarossa was named after Frederick Barbarossa, the medieval Holy Roman Emperor. The German invasion of the Soviet Union caused a high rate of fatalities: 95 percent of all German Army casualties that occurred from 1941 to 1944, and 65 percent of all Allied military casualties from the entire war. It marked the beginning of the pivotal phase in deciding the victors of the war. In addition to troops, Barbarossa initially used 600,000 motor vehicles and 625,000 horses.The ambitious operation was driven by Adolf Hitler's persistent desire to conquer the Soviet territories as embodied in Generalplan Ost. Operation Barbarossa (German: Fall Barbarossa, literally "Case Barbarossa"), beginning 22 June 1941, was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km (1,800 mi) front,the largest invasion in the history of warfare. It’s this crucial battle which begins the explosive campaign of Company of Heroes 2. By 1942 Hitler’s forces had pushed through to Stalingrad, but the Soviet army were well prepared. While the first few months of the operation saw German forces pushing through Russia, they soon found not only up against Stalin’s considerable army, but also the inhospitable conditions of the Russian Winter. With Hitler putting Operation Barbarossa into effect, over four million German soldiers were sent to invade the Soviet Union and march into the USSR.
Rather than continuing on the Western Front, the sequel depicts the brutal battles of the Eastern Front under Stalin's Red Army.īeginning in the Spring of 1941, Company of Heroes 2 sees the Red Army rising up against the forces of the German army. Company of Heroes gives players an interactive history lesson by allowing them to oversee some of the era's most devastating battles.
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