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After suffering over 850,000 casualties, Germany begins its long retreat.
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German military quickly conquered enormous swaths of land and netted hundreds of thousands of prisoners.
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After recovering from the initial shock of the German invasion, Stalin moved his factories east of the Urals, out of range of the Luftwaffe.
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German army faltered and fell back.It was the Soviet Union who broke Hitler’s army.
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Hitler did this in attempt to get rid of Stalin’s Soviet Union military threat and capture more land
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This is considered the largest land invasion in history. Both France and Poland fell.
