Mud and Blood: Operation Barbarossa: WWII 1941 (World War Two)

Mud & Blood brings to life the true horror of Operation Barbarossa a bitter battle fought on the Eastern Front. Operation Barbarossa was the name given to the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. The operation started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed Germany’s ideology to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans. Then use Slavs as a slave-labour force for the Axis war-effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories.

German infantry during World War Two was the most highly trained infantry in the world. They trained hard and fought even harder. However, German soldiers had a tough job fighting through cold winters and the rainy season when the ground became a quagmire. In conditions not too dissimilar to the First World War Having to live and fight in thick mud and bitter cold. Stretched supply lines and lacking the numbers they would eventually be defeated and pushed all the way back to Berlin to see the fall of the Third Reich. That does nothing to diminish the lives lost on all sides including the civilian population during a bitter battle fought in appalling conditions.