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It encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans), and lasted from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. Of the estimated 70–85 million deaths attributed to World War II, around 30 million occurred on the Eastern Front, including 9 million children. [1][2] The Eastern Front was decisive in ...
They estimated 635,000 total deaths, 500,000 due to the strategic bombing of Germany and an additional 135,000 killed in air raids during the 1945 flight and evacuations on the eastern front. [119] The civilian deaths in the air raids on eastern Front after 1/31/1945 are also included with the figures of the losses during the Flight and ...
Estimated total Soviet military war dead in 1941–45 on the Eastern Front (World War II) including missing in action, POWs and Soviet partisans range from 8.6 to 10.6 million. [306] There were an additional 127,000 war dead in 1939–40 during the Winter War with Finland.
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 ...
The number of Bulgarian partisan deaths against the "fascists" was 10,000. [26] 10,124 Bulgarian [26] and 21,035 Romanian deaths [27] were documented with the Allies. 1,036 Finns died in the Lapland War [28] and 8,000 Czech partisans were killed in the Prague Uprising. [24] The Allied casualties at the Eastern Front total at 8,900,000 deaths.
The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk is the single largest battle in the history of warfare. [41][42][43] It ranks only behind the Battle of ...
Coordinates: 50.4536°N 30.5164°E. Battle of Kiev (1941) Part of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front of World War II. Explosion of a Soviet radio-mine in Kiev (September 1941) Date. 7 July – 26 September 1941. (2 months, 2 weeks and 5 days) Location. East and south of Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
Total: 1,029,234 (see § Casualties) The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler 's attack on Moscow, the capital and ...