June 22, 1941

[sksvlad]

80 years ago Axis troops crossed the border of the USSR. This article covers what has transpired after that https://www.yahoo.com/news/worse-hitler-stalin-orchestrated-world-182158754.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink

 

[Millsman]

Sounds like a bad idea to me :tinysmile_cry_t:

 

[pzgr40]

Sounds like a bad idea to me :tinysmile_cry_t:

'On hindsight .... you look a cow in it's arse' is a Dutch saying

 

[Millsman]

'On hindsight .... you look a cow in it's arse' is a Dutch saying

What's the old saying?

If you ignore the mistakes of history, you are doomed to repeat them.

Clearly Adolf had never read much about Napoleon. That's no excuse for his professional Generals though.

 

[sksvlad]

And this is how all of that ended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pcMdCkgVAo

 

[Slick]

Nearly a third of those German POWs(numbers vary, but in the 3 million range captured and held by the Russians) never made it home.

 

[Millsman]

Nearly a third of those German POWs(numbers vary, but in the 3 million range captured and held by the Russians) never made it home.

I think even fewer Russian POWs made it home from Germany or the occupied countries. The Germans had a deliberate policy to starve and work them to death. Total war.

 

[Slick]

I think even fewer Russian POWs made it home from Germany or the occupied countries. The Germans had a deliberate policy to starve and work them to death. Total war.

Yes. Something like 3.3 million out of 5.7 million Russian prisoners died/killed. Total suck.