We are sorry to interrupt your programming. It is the German Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, speaking:
"... At this moment a march is taking place that for its extent, compares with the greatest the world has ever seen. I have decided again to place the fate and future of the Reich and our people in the hands of the soldiers ..."
Just before dawn today the mightiest battle in the annals of war has began. Hitler's Wehrmacht has launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. The Russian expanse has been traversed, over a nearly 1,000-mile front, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, with a blitzkrieg invasion force consisting of 3.3 million German soldiers, 3,300 tanks, including several Panzer divisions, and 600,000 other motorized and armored vehicles.
Army Group North is headed toward the Baltic to protect the iron ore shipments from Sweden and capture Leningrad; Army Group Center, led by German Panzer General Heinz Guderian is aimed like a dagger toward Moscow; Army Group South points to the Ukraine and the Caucasus to capture the Soviet oil fields...
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