The German Generalplan Ost aimed to use some of the conquered people as forced labour for the Axis war effort while acquiring the oil reserves of the Caucasus as well as the agricultural resources of various Soviet territories, including Ukraine and Byelorussia. The operation, code-named after Frederick Barbarossa ("red beard"), a 12th-century Holy Roman emperor, Crusader, and German king, put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union to repopulate it with Germans. It was the largest land offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants taking part. Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War.
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