Saturday, June 7, 1941 - On the way to the Soviet Union

[Louis]

In preparation for Operation Barbarossa, long columns of Wehrmacht troops are heading east in Poland. This is very noticeable to locals because the military vehicles clog the roads and all civilian vehicles are prohibited for hours at a time. Full vehicles are traveling east, empty ones back to the west. Of course, civilians see the military traffic on the roads, and it is fairly obvious to them what is in store.

German panzer troops advance from Poland at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, June 1941.