Else Clara Wilke, a German East Prussian refugee flees to Oksbøl, Denmark
I was awakened by my mother at about 4:30 a.m. with the words "Musst aufstehen, die Polacken schiessen" …
Operation Barbarossa
All articlesOperation Barbarossa was the WW2 German military campaign against the Soviet Union, initiated on June 22, 1941. It involved over three million Axis troops along a 2,900-kilometer front. The objective was the rapid destruction of Soviet forces and the capture of key cities such as Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad.
