85 years ago, Operation Barbarossa began. German soldiers crossing the Soviet border at border sign No. IV/95 in the Sokal district of the Lviv region of the Ukrainian SSR. June 22, 1941.
Hitler awarding Michael Wittmann the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords in Berlin. June 22, 1944. (In the background, you can see an ancient 4th-century BC Apulian vase that was gifted to Hitler by Mussolini in 1938.)