T-34 tank
, on 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler committed Germany and his Thousand Year Reich to its calamitous downfall by invading Russia and starting a war on two fronts. His Panzers had steamrollered across Western Europe in just six weeks, so Hitler felt confident that he would be in Moscow before the Russian winter arrived. In his arrogance and hubris he wrote off the Russians as an inferior Slavic race and
