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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
Map of the Soviet Advance into East Prussia & Siege of Königsberg January 13 - May 9, 1945, archived from the original on 10 April 2006; Glantz, David M., The Soviet-German War 1941–45]: Myths and Realities: A Survey Essay (PDF), pp. 84– 87, archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2011; Popov, Grigory (2020).
The Comintern joined the Allies in June 1941 upon the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, thus confining Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war. According to military terminology, a two-front war occurs when opposing forces encounter on two geographically separate fronts. The forces of two or more allied parties usually simultaneously engage an ...