When dawn came, they…weren’t sleeping. „The Soviet Preemptive Strike” and the German reply of June 22, 1941 (2)
On June 17, 1945, a group of Soviet military investigators conducted an interrogation of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel who would declare: “I must affirm that the preparatory measures carried out by us in the spring of 1941 were defensive preparations in the event of a Red Army offensive. Thus, the entire Eastern war, for the most part, can be called preventive. We thought…to prevent the offensive of Soviet Russia and, with an unexpected blow, to obliterate its armed forces. In the spring of 1941 I had formed a clear opinion: the concentration of Russian troops and their subsequent offensive...
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