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The greatest battles of WW Iim the most colossal encounters of military force, the most devastating human losses which the modern world has ever seen, occurred on Russian soil during 1941-1945, on a battlefield that is unknown to most Americans. The conflict between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia claimed more than 30 million lives.
On the early morning of June 22, 1941, the nazi Wehrmacht had amassed 4.2 million crack troops along a front that stretched 1,800 miles, and Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union began.
