Centuur
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In Germany, Rumania, Hungaria and Bulgaria, officers and men on leave receive letters from the postmen. Please report to your posts immediately. All leaves are cancelled. In Finland, general mobilization starts. A lot of planes are seen flying to the east over Germany and Hungary early january. The German Kriegsmarine sails for the Baltic Sea. GROe officials in Moscow send reports to Beria. He discards it, saying: "look outside, it's snowing. I'm not going to propose to send more men and equipment west in this weather, but let's mobilize all available men, just in case"... In Berlin, on the evening of the 20th. of january 1941 the weather report is discussed at the OKW. The Reichswetterdienst reports: "over Eastern Poland and large parts of the USSR, there will be continuing light snow fall. Only around the Black Sea, there are storms which tend to continue for a while". The weathermen leave the office. Generalfeldmarschall Walter von Brauchitsch looks around the conference chamber, which is filled with high commanding officers: "Gentlemen, the Führer has autorised me, to set the final date of the attack on the Soviets. I now declare that we are ready and we will attack this night, according to the orders we've all been given. Carry on". The officers rise and salute. After retuning the salute, von Brauchitsch returns to his desk and picks up the phone. When the phone is answered, he states his name and says: "Please inform the Führer: Barbarossa"...
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