Operation Barbarossa
June 22, 1941 – January 7, 1942
Result Axis strategic failure
Nazi Germany and its Axis allies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 with over 3.8 million troops along a 2,900-kilometer front. The largest and costliest offensive in history, it caused over 8 million casualties by its end on 5 December, opening the Eastern Front and drawing the USSR into the Allied camp.
Axis
Allies
Adolf Hitler
head of state/government
Hermann Göring
Wilhelm Keitel
Alfred Jodl
Gerd von Rundstedt
Field Marshal, Commander of Army Group South (drive into Ukraine)
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
military commander
Ion Antonescu
military commander
Fedor von Bock
Field Marshal, Commander of Army Group Center (drive on Moscow)
Strength and losses
- Strength
- 3,800,000
- Aircraft
- 2,770–5,369
- Guns
- 7,200–23,435
- Vehicles
- 600,000
Kingdom of Romania Casualties 114,000
- Strength
- 2,600,000–2,900,000
- Tanks
- 11,000
- Aircraft
- 7,133–9,100
Units
Army Group Centre
2nd Army (Wehrmacht)
9th Army (Wehrmacht)
Panzer Group 2
Panzer Group 3
Army Group North
Army Group North
4th Army (Wehrmacht)
Army Group South
4th Panzer Army
6th Army (Wehrmacht)
Army Group South
11th Army (Wehrmacht)
16th Army (Wehrmacht)
17th Army (Wehrmacht)
18th Army (Wehrmacht)
1st Panzer Army
Army Norway (Wehrmacht)
Fourth Army (Romania)
Third Army (Romania)
IX Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
L Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
LII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
LIV Army Corps
LV Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
VII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
VIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
X Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XVII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XX Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XXIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XXVII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XXX Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XXXIV Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XXXV Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XXXXII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XXXXIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XXXXIV Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
10th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
110th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
111th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
112th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
11th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
11th Panzer Division
122nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
129th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
12th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
134th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
13th Panzer Division
14th Panzer Division
161st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
16th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
16th Panzer Division
170th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
17th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
17th Panzer Division
18th Panzer Division
197th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
198th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
19th Panzer Division
1st Cavalry Division (Wehrmacht)
1st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
1st Mobile Infantry Division (Slovak Republic)
1st Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
20th Panzer Division
24th Panzer Division
253rd Infantry Division
258th Infantry Division
263rd Infantry Division
269th Infantry Division
290th Infantry Division
295th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
297th Infantry Division
29th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
2nd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
30th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
32nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
34th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
3rd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
44th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
4th Panzer Division
50th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
57th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
58th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
5th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
60th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
62nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
6th Panzer Division
6th SS Mountain Division Nord
75th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
78th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
7th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
81st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
9th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
Luftflotte 1
Luftflotte 2
Luftflotte 4
Jagdgeschwader 77
Northwestern Front
Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)
Western Front (Soviet Union)
16th Army (Soviet Union)
19th Army (Soviet Union)
20th Army (Soviet Union)
22nd Army (Soviet Union)
10th Army (Soviet Union)
11th Army (Soviet Union)
12th Army (Soviet Union)
13th Army (Soviet Union)
18th Army (Soviet Union)
21st Army (Soviet Union)
24th Army (Soviet Union)
26th Army (Soviet Union)
27th Army (Soviet Union)
28th Army (Soviet Union)
34th Army (Soviet Union)
37th Army (Soviet Union)
3rd Army (Soviet Union)
40th Army (Soviet Union)
48th Army
4th Army (Soviet Union)
50th Army (Soviet Union)
52nd Army (Soviet Union)
54th Army (Soviet Union)
55th Army (Soviet Union)
5th Guards Combined Arms Army
6th Guards Combined Arms Army
7th Army (Soviet Union)
8th Army (Soviet Union)
9th Army (Soviet Union)
Separate Coastal Army
10th Rifle Corps
11th Rifle Corps
15th Rifle Corps
16th Rifle Corps
17th Rifle Corps
19th Rifle Corps
1st Guards Cavalry Corps
21st Rifle Corps
24th Rifle Corps
28th Rifle Corps
29th Rifle Corps
34th Rifle Corps
42nd Rifle Corps
44th Rifle Corps
47th Rifle Corps
50th Rifle Corps
51st Rifle Corps
52nd Rifle Corps
5th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union)
62nd Rifle Corps
66th Rifle Corps
69th Rifle Corps
7th Rifle Corps
9th Rifle Corps
100th Rifle Division
108th Rifle Division
109th Motorized Division
112th Rifle Division
113th Rifle Division
116th Rifle Division
118th Rifle Division
119th Rifle Division
124th Rifle Division
125th Rifle Division
126th Rifle Division
128th Rifle Division
129th Rifle Division
130th Rifle Division
131st Rifle Division
132nd Rifle Division
134th Rifle Division
135th Rifle Division
13th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
140th Rifle Division
141st Rifle Division
143rd Rifle Division
144th Rifle Division
145th Rifle Division
146th Rifle Division
147th Rifle Division
148th Rifle Division
149th Rifle Division
151st Rifle Division
152nd Rifle Division
158th Rifle Division
160th Rifle Division (1940 formation)
162nd Rifle Division
164th Rifle Division
167th Rifle Division
169th Rifle Division
176th Rifle Division
178th Rifle Division
179th Rifle Division
182nd Rifle Division
183rd Rifle Division
185th Rifle Division
186th Rifle Division (1941 formation)
187th Rifle Division
189th Rifle Division
190th Rifle Division
192nd Mountain Rifle Division
193rd Tank Division
195th Rifle Division
196th Rifle Division
197th Rifle Division
199th Rifle Division
200th Rifle Division
202nd Rifle Division
204th Rifle Division
205th Rifle Division
206th Rifle Division
208th Motorized Division
209th Rifle Division
210th Rifle Division
211th Rifle Division
212th Rifle Division
214th Rifle Division
217th Rifle Division
218th Rifle Division
219th Rifle Division
220th Rifle Division
221st Rifle Division
222nd Rifle Division
223rd Rifle Division
227th Rifle Division
228th Rifle Division
229th Rifle Division
232nd Rifle Division
233rd Rifle Division
235th Rifle Division
237th Rifle Division
240th Rifle Division
284th Rifle Division
28th Tank Division
293rd Rifle Division
300th Rifle Division
301st Rifle Division
303rd Rifle Division
304th Rifle Division
309th Rifle Division
37th Rifle Division
49th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
55th Rifle Division
60th Mountain Rifle Division
67th Rifle Division
6th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
72nd Mountain Rifle Division
80th Rifle Division
97th Rifle Division
98th Rifle Division
752nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
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