![]() ![]() Under the overall command of Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, three army groups would advance to the line of the Daugava and Dnieper rivers, 350 miles into Soviet territory, and still about 300 miles west of Moscow. The original intention had been for full-scale fighting in the Soviet Union to last only a couple of months. The essence of Germany’s Barbarossa plan had been to conduct a war of movement.
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