WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following took heavy losses during the first phase of the Nazi invasion of the USSR?
A
Red army
B
Soviet civilians
C
Soviet industry
D
All of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The battle was marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids, with the battle epitomizing urban warfare. The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest battle to take place during the Second World War.

Detailed explanation-2: -Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: , romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War.

Detailed explanation-3: -For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted almost 150 divisions containing a total of about 3, 000, 000 men. Among these were 19 panzer divisions, and in total the “Barbarossa” force had about 3, 000 tanks, 7, 000 artillery pieces, and 2, 500 aircraft.

Detailed explanation-4: -because the German army and occupation authorities killed, starved, and brutalized the Russians under German control. The vast number of Soviet wartime dead were civilians who died at German hands or from German policies.

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