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The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Combat in the Eastern Front began with the two powers remaining peaceful towards each other, with the annexation of countries such as Albania and portions of Poland by Germany and its allies, and the annexation of Finland and the rest of Poland by ...
Eastern Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...
Sinyavino (1941) & (1942) — separate failed Soviet attempts to relieve Leningrad Suvorov (1943) — recapture of Spas-Demensk, El’nia, Roslavl’, and Smolensk. Uranus (1942) — successful Soviet encirclement of German Sixth Army in Stalingrad .
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Panzer Operations The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus 1941–1945 by Steven H Newton Da Capo Press edition 2003 ISBN 0-306-81247-9; Stalingrad to Berlin – The German Defeat in the East by Earl F Ziemke Dorset Press 1968; The Road to Berlin by John Erickson Westview Press 1983
Nazi–Soviet Union relations and Nazi–Soviet economic relations [1934–1941] (Russo-German plans to develop a partition of the Eastern Hemisphere, or at least Eastern Europe, since 1 September 1939 to 1941). Partition of Eastern Europe between USSR and the Third Reich Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (First partition of Eastern Europe: Finland ...
This category includes sub-categories and articles which reference events, organisations, societies and individuals that occurred, participated in or are notable for influencing military outcomes in fighting between the Axis forces and those of Finland from 22 June 1941 to 11 May 1945 on the territories of the USSR, Finland, Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Norway, Germany ...
On 25 August 1941 British and Commonwealth forces and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Iran. The purpose of the invasion (codenamed Operation Countenance) was to secure Iranian oil fields and ensure supply lines (see Persian Corridor) for the Soviets fighting against European Axis countries on the Eastern Front.