July 11, Rick Halperin, director of the SMU Dallas Human Rights Program, for a piece about the Nazi invasion of Russian in 1941 and the longstanding impacts on Germany and modern Russia. Published in History News Network with the heading Reflecting on the 80th Anniversary of the Nazi Invasion of Russia: https://bit.ly/3yL4Gi7
Eighty years ago last month Adolf Hitler unleashed almost 3 million soldiers along a 1,500-mile front, with the intent to utterly and militarily destroy the Soviet Union. It was the largest assembled army the world had ever seen. The havoc, destruction, and wholesale slaughter of human beings that ensued in the months and years to come would change the paradigm of World War II and alter world history.
Among the death tolls were 2 million Jews and millions of Russian civilians who were murdered. Thousands of towns and villages were destroyed and wiped off the map, art and livestock were plundered and the human psyche scarred forever.
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