What happened in the First 24 hours of Operation Barbarossa?

What happened in the first 24 hours of Operation Barbarossa?

At 03:15, on June 22nd 1941, more than three million Axis troops, including 150 divisions and 600,000 vehicles had advanced along a 1,800-mile front.

German Army Group North, Center and South advanced rapidly. Army Group Center, led by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, led the invasion with 1.3 million men, making the deepest penetrations. In the first 24 hours they captured multiple key positions and advanced up to 50 kilometers.
The Soviet Red Army, taken by surprise, suffered heavy casualties, with an estimated 150,000 soldiers killed, wounded or captured in the first 24 hours.
The operation aimed for a quick victory, but despite early successes, stubborn Soviet resistance and vast territory soon challenged German expectations.

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[TetsuShima]

*Fun fact:* After the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Stalin ordered the recent film "Alexander Nevsky" to be withdrawn from circulation, due to its German-Russian conflict. Once Operation Barbarossa began, Stalin ordered the film to be shown every day in all Russian cinemas

[kerryannegarnick]

It was not one of the largest land invasions to ever occur. It was the largest invasion in human history.

[iloveapple]

'' Luftwatl'' 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥

[DanielGrabarek]

No details about first 24 hours as promised

[anthonylecesne]

I thought for sure that this video would be about what happened TWENTY FOUR HOURS after Germany . . . Instead, a history lesson known by everyone who knows about WWII. A lot of nothing.

[starmarinrtur]

"We only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down" oh what irony that statement was...

[oliverhughes]

'What happened on the first day' - 75% of the video is about before it. I was hoping for more details.

[davidjackson]

“One of the largest land invasions”
It was without question the largest land invasion in history. Nothing comparable in terms of size or scale.

[Turf-yjei]

To be fair the way the red army fell on it's face in Finland it's easy to see how Hitler thought they were an incompetent fighting force. At that time they very much were. It took years of total war before the Soviets became an effective fighting force

[GiR]

Correction it was not just one of the largest land invasion, but THE LARGEST INVASION in the entire human military history.

[myplane]

Hitler never said he wouldn't have attacked had he known the tank strength of the Soviets (which was actually 35, 000+ and not 14, 000) in the recorded converstaion with Finnish CIC Mannerheim(5:18). What he said was that he would have commented that his Generals were crazy for thinking they had so many tanks but that even if it were true, he would have attacked anyway most likely based on the performance of the Soviets in the Winter War and of the purges.

[PTrit]

0:32
Which second front?

The Westfront was pacified at that time and no amphibious landing of the allies were yet to be planned

[Chuck_Hooks]

"Now they say that the allies never helped us, but it can't be denied that the Americans gave us so many goods without which we wouldn't have been able to form our reserves and continue the war, " Soviet General Georgy Zhukov.

[dragosstanciu]

Another reason for Operation Barbarossa was because the Red Army had positioned strong units near the Romanian border, thus threatened the oil fields in that country which were vital for Germany. If the USSR had occupied Romania in 1941, then it would have been game over for Germany even before Barbarossa would start.

[kriskris]

Reaching Moscow and taking the city are two different things. The battle for Moscow would make Stalingrad looking like picnic

[darklysm]

Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was broken by the Soviets, by annexing part of Romania which was in the german sphere of influence

[btc]

Stalins trusted no one except Hitler. Quite frankly, he was scared as hell of Hitler. Hitler never listened to his Fenerals. While Stalin, who also never listened, however did lusten to Georgy Zukov at Moscow. Big turning point there. By turning off to the side the Fermans lost 4 to 6 weeks of good fighting weather.

[LependK]

I love how people try to make Germany and Soviets seem like some sort of allies cause they signed a non-aggression but nobody says the same thing about the French and British even though they let Germany take Czechoslovakia without any consequences.

[edison]

I'll give you a well-known fact with historians at the time but is not talked about now. The reason why German forces in 1941 were able to so easily encircle the Red Army forces was because the Red Army stationed on Germany's border was in Offensive mode. Meaning, that later intelligence showed, that Stalin was planning on invading Germany one month after operation Barbarossa was launched. So the notion that they were "good allies" is completely false

[grandadmiralzaarin]

The reason for the invasion was desperation. The Reich was consuming more than 9.5 million tons of oil than it produced in 1940 after conquering France, Norway and the low countries. If they did not secure the oil fields of the Caucuses they would be unable to conclude the war with the British Empire successfully. This was in large part why the timetable for Barbarossa stipulated victory requirement by the Fall of 1941. Case Blue was the last ditch attempt to secure the oil fields and continue the war. After that, Germany lacked the ability for multi front offensives and was increasingly reduced to static defense in the hopes for a favorable negotiated peace.