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The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. Although Adolf Hitler had congratulated himself on the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of as a matter of expediency, anti-Bolshevism had remained his most profound emotional conviction as World War II entered its second year. He became acutely suspicious of the intentions of the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin , and he began to feel that he could not afford to wait to complete the subjugation of western Europe , as he had originally planned, before dealing with the Soviet Union. Hitler and his generals had originally scheduled the invasion of the U. Nevertheless, Hitler and the heads of the Oberkommando des Heeres OKH, or German Army High Command —namely, the army commander in chief, Walther von Brauchitsch , and the army general staff chief, Franz Halder—were convinced that the Red Army could be defeated in two or three months and that by the end of October the Germans would have conquered the whole European part of Russia and Ukraine west of a line stretching from Arkhangelsk Archangel to Astrakhan. The invasion of the Soviet Union was originally given the code name Operation Fritz, but as preparations began, Hitler renamed it Operation Barbarossa, after Holy Roman emperor Frederick Barbarossa reigned —90 , who sought to establish German predominance in Europe. For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted almost divisions containing a total of about three million men. Among those units were 19 panzer divisions, and in total the Barbarossa force had about 3, tanks, 7, artillery pieces, and 2, aircraft. It was in effect the largest and most powerful invasion force in human history. The German Invasion Of The Soviet Union.

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