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Operation Barbarossa
German soldiers fighting in the Soviet Union as part of Operation Barbarossa, 1941.
During Operation Barbarossa, the army group commanded by Gerd von Rundstedt advanced from southern Poland into Ukraine.1
The primary objective of this offensive was to strike against Kiev. Following this, the forces were directed to wheel southeastward toward the coasts of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Throughout the campaign, Rundstedt’s forces, supported by an armoured group under Paul Ludwig von Kleist, successfully broke Soviet defenses and executed large-scale encirclement maneuvers in the region.1