![]() “It’s got to be a provocation from the German generals,” he told senior Soviet officials in the early hours of June 22. The communist dictator had refused to believe them. ![]() Stalin was shocked he had received a plethora of warnings of an imminent invasion – notably from Winston Churchill, informed by British intelligence briefings. The most horrific images was a three-year-old child lying in the middle of the road with half its head missing.” *īarbarossa shattered the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the USSR signed in August 1939. ![]() Civilians were completely taken by surprise they didn’t have time to flee. One of the most striking eyewitness testimonies from this extraordinary outburst of militarised violence – in which some five million people were killed in 200 days – comes from German soldier Alexander Cohrs: “Two villages were burning in front of us. ![]()
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