How to pronounce “barbarossa” in English

So Operation Barbarossa that you're mentioning...

Because in Barbarossa, you're talking about 17 Panzer divisions out of, you know, the hundred involved in the initial attack.

So when you're talking about Operation Barbarossa, to go back to your original question, Lex, you're dealing with an operation on such a vast scale

But the opening phase of Barbarossa has been a catastrophe.

through the months immediately preceding the Operation Barbarossa.

And on the night of Operation Barbarossa, he gets drunk at the Imperial Hotel, stands up on a table, and tells an audience of Nazis, Hitler is a bandit.

And so you have to understand that everything about Operation Barbarossa, the planned invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941,

What you see is in the initial phases of Operation Barbarossa, they surge forward.

You know, they go into Barbarossa with 2,000 different types of vehicle.

So the result is that Stalin indeed does not know-- is blindsided by Operation Barbarossa.

I mean, this is a problem he has with Barbarossa.

I mean, you know, Barbarossa should never have come close to being a victory.

But yeah, there's so many things wrong with the Barbarossa plan.

Sorge did in fact warn the Soviets multiple times that plans for Barbarossa were advancing.

So the question for Sorge, June 23rd, the day after Barbarossa, is why?