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German troops have overrun Europe, Great Britain is isolated. Ireland, Switzerland, Portugal, Sweden and Turkey are neutral, Spain sympathizes. Hitler also wants to conquer the east and, despite the non-aggression pact, begins a cruel war of annihilation against the Soviet Union. On June 22, 1941, the German Reich invaded the Soviet Union as part of Operation Barbarossa – without declaring war and with the largest invasion army that had ever been assembled up to that point.