'Exercises' on the Russian border
20th June 1941: Implausible stories cover the build up to Barbarossa
The assembly of the largest invasion force ever, consisting of nearly 4 million men on a front 1,000 miles long could not possibly be concealed. Nevertheless all manner of fictions were invented to explain the build up for Barbarossa, however implausible they …
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