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Operation Barbarossa
German soldiers fighting in the Soviet Union as part of Operation Barbarossa, 1941.
For the invasion of the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa, the German military allotted almost 150 divisions, which comprised a total of approximately three million men.1
This force, which was further bolstered by more than 30 divisions of Finnish and Romanian troops, represented the largest and most powerful invasion force in human history at that time.1