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German 6th Army troops pinned down by Soviet sniper fire in Stalingrad. (source: Wikimedia Commons) In the summer of 1941 the German army kicked off Operation Barbarossa, the long-awaited invasion of the Soviet Union. Army units of the Wehrmacht (German Army) as well as troops from friendly Axis nations like Romania and Hungary made massive…
L-R: Stresemann, Chamberlain (UK) and Briand (France) hammering out the Treaty of Locarno in 1925. (source: Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1925, the German parliament ratified (signed into law) the Treaty of Locarno. Signed by France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and England, the treaty had three main goals: solidify Europe's post-WWI borders, get Germany into…
Finns prepare to defend their position against a Soviet advance during the Winter War. (source: Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1939, the Soviet Red Army fired seven artillery shells at Mainila, a Russian village 800 metres from the Russian-Finnish border. Claiming that Finnish units had fired on Russian civilians unprovoked, the Shelling of Mainila…
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