History of World War II: Operation Barbarossa, Germans advance into Eastern Ukraine and Crimea

Filed by Elara Myst

 By Shane QuinnGlobal Research, September 30, 2026 [Author’s Note: The article below, first published with GR on 26 November 2021, focuses on the assaults launched by German Army Group South against the southern and western Soviet Union during the autumn and early winter of 1941. Acting as the spearhead of Army Group South, the German 6th Army, which performed a leading role in the Nazi defeat of France in mid-1940, had gained a great deal of momentum in opposition to the Soviet military .