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Weather History: Operation Barbarossa 1941

Dec 2, 2010; 10:23 AM ET

Operation Barbarossa was the code name of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The Soviet winter ultimately changed the tides of Hitler's operation.

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