Soviet Cossacks Who Fought For Germany Should Never Have Trusted Churchill’s Britain
by Warfare History Network (The National Interest)
n estimated four million Red Army soldiers were captured by the Germans during the six months after the launching of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941. Indeed, the chief of the German General Staff, Colonel General Franz Halder, wrote, “The Russians have lost this war in the first eight days! Their casualties—in both men and equipment—are unimaginable.”
Soviet Cossacks Who Fought For Germany Should Never Have Trusted Churchill’s Britain