October 1941, near Salla on the Kola Peninsula. A Soviet-occupied region in northeast Finland.

The men are covered in their tents as protection against the icy rain, and all know by now that the deadly winter will be upon them long before they hopefully reach Murmansk. 

The Northern Front

Burning BT-7 light tank and one of the crew during the early days of Operation Barbarossa.

Barbarossa

Heinrich Himmler talking with a Soviet prisoner in 1941.

We dont know what the conversation was about, but most likely it was nowhere near the hateful garbage we are presented in Hollywood movie-quotes.