Who were the key figures in Operation Barbarossa?

The key figures on both sides for Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, were:

GERMANY

- Chief of State and Supreme Commander-in-Chief: Adolf Hitler

- Military Leadership:

1. Werner von Fritsch (Command dismissed)

2. Walther von Brauchitsch (Supreme Commander of the Army) 

3. Franz Halder **(Army chief of staff)

4. Ewald von Kleist (First Panzer Army Commander)

>The above five held responsibility within Germany

SOVIET UNION

>- Joseph Stalin: Dictator and Premier of the Soviet Union. Also acted as military supreme commander

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Vasili Stalin: Joseph Stalin's youngest son; also an air-force officer and general

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Georgy Zhukov: Red Army chief of general staff