powerful its mission was to encircle and destroy soviet troops and belorussia and move on to moscow vyas money. the german strategy relied on surprise attack to demoralize the adversary from the opening seconds. the sound of the explosions was deafening before that i had seen war only in films . i thought it was an earthquake but i just couldn't believe there was a war going on. the first hours of june twenty second one thousand forty one. a member of the military band asleep in his barracks on the second floor of breast fortress. within minutes of the attack bullets and shells fragments and riddled the barracks walls. i remember dosed all over the place. well. i could barely breathe iraq myself up in a blanket but almost literally then i heard an order grab your rifles and get downstairs. now i barely had time to pull all my clothes before rushing downstairs with my platoon where. only a few hours later the german plan to move through bella russian territory heads. every week covered from the initial shock the soviet soldiers remaining in the garrison offered stubborn resistance despite