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How many tanks, artillery pieces, and aircraft did Germany use in Operation Barbarossa?

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Eastern Front Red Army soldier waving the Soviet flag during the Battle of Stalingrad.

For Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion force was equipped with approximately:

3,000 tanks1
7,000 artillery pieces1
2,500 aircraft1

These forces were part of a massive military undertaking involving nearly 150 divisions and approximately three million men, representing the largest and most powerful invasion force in human history at that time.1