Combat performance and subsequent reputations of six representative German and Soviet infantry battalions pitched into three pivotal actions that determined the course of the Barbarossa campaign at the height of World War II
The Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 pitted Nazi Germany and her allies against Stalin's forces in a mighty struggle for survival
Three German army groups North
Center and South advanced into Soviet-held territory
Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock's Army Group Center