Operation Barbarossa signified a code name that the Germans created for the invasion of Russia. The Germans planned to invade Russia and complete the war against Russia in just a mere three months’ time. “They based Barbarossa on two main concepts. First, huge German army groups would strike heavy initial blows near the Russian border to cut off and destroy Red Army forces. Second, the Germans aimed at establishing a battleline running approximately from Archangel on the Arctic Ocean in the north to the northern shore of the Caspian Sea in the south (McKale , 2002, p. 176).” This plan that the Germans had for the Soviet Union would mark a war of annihilation against the USSR. Throughout the war, the Germans participated in a method of war called the Holocaust by bullets. The Holocaust by bullets assisted in the annihilation against the USSR in that this was when the Germans killed mass groups of individuals with guns. This impacted the war because this left for a brutal war and many individuals were killed. During this war the Germans would come to have millions of additional Jews under their control which would assist Hitler in his plan for the Holocaust of annihilating the Jewish population. Operation Barbarossa would affect World War Two with Germany invading Russia with the intent of gaining more land to assist with Germany dominating the …show more content…
Adolf Hitler wanted to create world domination for Germany and wanted to annihilation the Jewish population. From January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945 there were a total of five to six million Jews that were killed during the Holocaust. From the year 1933 to the year 1945 there is a direct connection with the events of the Holocaust effecting World War Two and the outcome. Hitler’s plan was to annihilate the Jews and to create world domination for Germany. These two events would impact World War Two with the events that brought different countries into the war. By understanding the events of World War Two there is a connection and understanding about the Holocaust and Hitler’s plan for