After Word

As I write, it's a wonderful Midsummer's Day--June 22, 2001, sixty years after the Germans rolled across the Soviet frontier. Many things have been happening during these sixty years--Victory Days, remembrance for the dead, parades down Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev. The list goes on and on.

No one could have imagined that Barbarossa would have such a dramatic end--Hitler killing himself in the final battle for Berlin, Soviet soldiers raising the Red Flag over the German legislature, the Germans signing the surrender, all in a backdrop of a devastated Europe. Neither could anyone have conceived the human cost of the war.

Above all, though, I feel that though the German invasion of the USSR was dramatic, it still was costly in human lives. War is terrible. I do hope you agree.

The Author