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When did Germany launch Operation Barbarossa?
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Eastern Front
Red Army soldier waving the Soviet flag during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941.12
While German leadership had originally scheduled the invasion for mid-May 1941, the campaign was postponed to late June due to the necessity of military operations in Yugoslavia and Greece in April of that year.3