lecture 6 - operation barbarossa and ideological war in the east
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Operation Barbarossa: The War of Annihilation in the Soviet Union
1. Operation Barbarossa and Ideological Warfare in the East - - The Battle Plan and the Invasion, June 22, 1941 - - Blitzkrieg and the 1800 km front - - The Siege of Leningrad ( beginning September , 1941)2. The Failure of Blitzkrieg and the Battle for Moscow - - Operation Typhoon (beginning October 2, 1941) - - General Zhukov and the Soviet Counter-Offensive - - Hitler’s Fatal Mistake3. Lebensraum in Practice: Generalplan Ost (“General Plan East”) - - The Einsatzgruppen and the Murder of the Jews - - - - The Testimony of Hermann Graebe - - - - Local Collaboration in the East - - Demographic Reorganization and German Resettlement
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Nazi-dominated Europe, May 1941
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Nazi propaganda: “Victory or Bolshevism”
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Anti-Soviet Propaganda: “Bolshevism Unmasked”
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A few of the 2000 Soviet planes lost on the first day of Operation Barbarossa
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Blitzkrieg in the Soviet Union
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Victims of the siege of Leningrad, 1941
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One of the 1.5 million Russians who died during the 872-day siege of Leningrad
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Wehrmacht troops in the Soviet Union
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Operation Typhoon called for the encirclement of Moscow, to begin October 2, 1941
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Women dig anti-tank ditches around Moscow, 1941
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General Zhukov’s defense of Moscow was aided greatly by bad weather and thick mud which stalled the German advance
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German troops in heavy snow, north of Moscow
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Soviet troops properly outfitted with winter gear begin the counter attack, December 5, 1941
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The Soviet counter-offensive, December 1941-Febrauy 1942
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German-Occupied Europe (in red) in 1942
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SS Leader Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945)
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Execution of Soviet Civilians by the Einsatzgruppen
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Einsatzgruppen Troops Gather Ukrainian Jews for Execution
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Killing of Jews in Ivangorod, Ukraine, 1942
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Civilians Killing Jews in Kovno, Lithuania as German troops look on
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Poland following partition, 1939
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Some of the 630,000 Poles evicted from western Poland
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Ethnic German settlers explore their new home in Poland
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Himmler speaks to a child during a visit to Poland