In the Spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Britain, Hitler turned the might of his military forces on to Stalin's Soviet Russia. The German army quickly advanced far into Russia as the Soviet forces suffered defeat after defeat. With brutality and savagery displayed by both sides, this was literally a campaign in which no prisoners were taken and no quarter given. As time wore on, the Eastern Front became, for the Germans, a byword for death - to be transferred to the front was a fate that was most feared by any member of the German forces.