Barbarossa

Dubbed 'Operation Barbarossa' by Adolf Hitler, the German invasion of the Soviet Union was named for Friedrich Barbarossa, the medieval Holy Roman Emperor who led a crusade to capture Jerusalem.

The Germans deployed fully 75 percent of their existing military forces in 1941 to the operation, including 148 divisions totaling over three million men

Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705370737/Holocaust-historian-said-2011-is-a-year-for-rememberance.html

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