On 21/6/1941 and in the early hours of 22/6/1941 a number of German communists serving in front line Wehrmacht units crossed the line and advised the Russians that Barbarossa was due to begin at 03.00 German time , 04.00 Russian time.

One was identified as Obergefreiter Alfred Liskow from Bavaria and a Wilhelm Korpik from Berlin , their info tied in with a Lithuanain deserter who had crossed the line at Kaunas 600km to the North.

Stalin ordered that the deserters be shot for " disinformation " !!!!!!!

Paul