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The Germans did their decision about the operation Barbarossa in February 1941, but the fights for the Balkan and the snowmelt delayed it. This timeloss made a great disadvantage in under Moscow. The operation started on 22. June. Stalin and the Soviet high command had warned but they did not do the required movements in time, and the suitable defence failed. The Wehrmacht and the German air force (Luftwaffe) attacked the airports and destroyed the planes on the ground in order to kick out the Soviet Air Force. The motorised troops cut the Soviet supply lines and huge areas had encircled. More than 1 million (!) Soviet soldier became a POW. (Many of these POWs joined to the ROA- Russian Liberator Army). The Germans attacked in three main ways, in each way attacked an each army; the North Army, the Middle Army and the South Army. The Finnish Army joined in North, the Romanians and the Hungarian 2nd Army in South to the fight. Many other nations joined too, like Estonians, Latvians and Italians as well. But only one of the attack ways was successful because the Germans and the Finnish couldn't capture Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during a 900 days long siege. The Wehrmacht had to fall back under Moscow in order to keep off the more heavier loses which isn't caused only by the Red Army, but the Russian winter, too. The South Army was successful in the beginning and they captured Kiev, than they sent to Stalingrad in order to cut the trade lines of the river Volga and to capture important industrial buildings. But the main goal was the oil fields in the Caucasus, but they couldn't reach it. After the Germans captured 90 (!) percent of the city the Russians with fresh energy, secured supply lines and with modern tanks encircled the city and destroyed the German 6th army. During the siege more than 1 million (!) soldiers lost their lives. The Germans had repelled back to Harkov, but the Soviet troops were too fast and their supply lines weren't secured. The Germans started a great counteroffensive and they recaptured Harkov with modern equipments (Tiger and Panther tanks and Elephant tankdestroyers). They reached the Kursk spur and there was the biggest tankbattle of the world war. The Germans lost the battle because they didn't have enough benzene and the high command gave dilettante orders. After the battle the Germans had no chance whatever in the eastern front. The Germans didn’t do anything after Kursk what could change the result of the war. The Soviet high command divided the main attack way into three main ways; the first went through Belarus and Poland to Berlin. The second through Ukraine and Hungary to Austria, and the 3rd way went South to capture Romania and the Balkan. The second attack way stocked in Hungary because the Soviets had to fight with the Hungarian-German forces large battles near Debrecen (there was the 2nd largest tankbattle) and Budapest. So the "3rd ways army" had to help in Hungary, because Malinovskij couldn't win alone. During this time Poland had liberated and the Soviets closed to Berlin. Budapest fell after a 108 days long siege in 13.02.45. Vienna was under a direct threat from the end of February and Berlin became a frontcity from April. The end date of the world war (European war) can be determinated to 08. May, because Hitler died in the end of April and Germany was in ruins.
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