Operation Barbarossa: War of Annihilation

June 1941. The Germans have racked up a series of easy victories. Exhilarated by their successes in Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, they prepare to leave for a secret operation in the East. Before Christmas, they're sure of it: they'll be back home. How could they have imagined that they were about to embark on a brutal war that would claim six million lives in the space of a few months?