When the German Army invaded Russia in June of 1941, they expected a quick
campaign, one that would lead them to victory. Instead they found that they
had started a long and bloody fight that would reach its zenith in the destroyed
streets of Stalingrad at the end of 1942. Those first two years of the campaign
in russia would result in the furthest advance of the German Army, a point of
which they would never return. From the initial invasion to defeat at Stalingrad,
this period would be the Advance of the Reich.
Advance of the Reich