<p>German tanks pass a burning Russian village during Operation Barbarossa, the <a href="/narrative/2972">invasion of the Soviet Union</a>, in the summer of 1941.</p> <div class="object-media__caption">© IWM (HU 111382)</div>
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Column of Soviet prisoners of war from the eastern front. Kharkov, Soviet Union, June 18, 1942.
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Column of Soviet prisoners of war
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Einsatzgruppen massacres in eastern Europe
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Einsatzgruppen - Photographs
German soldiers in the Soviet Union during a December 1943 Soviet offensive on the eastern front. German troops invaded Soviet territory in June 1941 but faced counteroffensives following the battle of Stalingrad. December 16, 1943.
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German Defeat at Stalingrad
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German Forces Launch Offensive
German soldiers in the Soviet Union during a December 1943 Soviet offensive on the eastern front. German troops invaded Soviet territory in June 1941 but faced counteroffensives following the battle of Stalingrad. December 16, 1943.
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German soldiers in the Soviet Union
German troops attack Soviet lines. Soviet Union, 1943–1944.
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German troops in the Soviet Union
This photograph shows German vehicles that have been loaded on trains headed toward the eastern front to reinforce German forces during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. A German soldier poses in the front car. 
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German vehicles headed to the eastern front
Jews at the killing site outside of Kamenets-Podolsk.
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Mass Shootings of Jews during the Holocaust
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Operation Barbarossa
Photograph taken by George Kadish: a member of the Kovno ghetto underground hides supplies in a well used as the entrance to a hiding place in the ghetto. Kovno, Lithuania, 1942.
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Resistance in the Smaller Ghettos of Eastern Europe
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Resistance in the Smaller Ghettos of Eastern Europe: Glossary
The Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 (Operation "Barbarossa"). German forces occupied Vitebsk in the northeastern region of Belorussia on July 11. Soviet forces seized the initiative from the Germans after the battle of Stalingrad in late 1942 and early 1943. The Soviet army liberated Vitebsk on June 26, 1944, during their summer 1944 offensive. This footage shows military units involved in the fighting and German soldiers captured during the campaign. By the end of the summer, the Soviet offensive reached the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland.
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Soviet military advance in Vitebsk
At left, a column of Soviet prisoners of war, under German guard, marches away from the front. Place uncertain, July 1, 1941.
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Soviet prisoners of war under German guard
Soviet soldiers in a street in the Soviet occupation zone of Berlin following the defeat of Germany. Berlin, Germany, after May 9, 1945.
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Soviet soldiers in a Berlin street
A column of refugees in the Soviet Union, following the German invasion of Soviet territory on June 22, 1941. Soviet Union, between 1941 and 1944.
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The Eastern Front: The German War against the Soviet Union

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