Tuesday, March 30, 2021

March 30, 1941. Hitler issues the oral version of the "Barbarossa Decree"

On this day in 1941 Adolf Hitler gave an address before some 200 German officers in which he declared that the upcoming war against the Soviet Union was to be a war of extermination in which Communist political and intellectual elites together with Jews in the USSR were subject to extermination through summary execution. A written version of the order would follow in May.

Other events in the war on this day:

Day 577 March 30, 1941

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau bombed at Brest

Today in World War II History—March 30, 1941

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