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When did Operation Barbarossa begin?
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Operation Barbarossa
German soldiers fighting in the Soviet Union as part of Operation Barbarossa, 1941.
Operation Barbarossa, the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, was launched on June 22, 1941.123