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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 ...
Operation Polar Fox (attempted invasion of Sweden from German occupied Norway during June–July 1943) [51] Operation Citadel (pincer offensives with the goal of encircling of Red Army forces after the Battle of Stalingrad. Carried out 4 July 1943.) Operation Eisenhammer (planned strategic bombing operation against power generators near Moscow ...
The First Donbas strategic offensive, also known as the Mius-Donets Offensive, [13] was a military campaign fought in the Donets Basin from 17 July to 2 August 1943, between the German and Soviet armed forces on the Eastern Front of World War II. The Germans contained the Soviet offensive in its northern portion after initial gains and pushed ...
Map of the Eastern Front in 1943, showing the Panther–Wotan line in red. The Panther–Wotan line, or Ostwall in German, was a defensive line partially built by the German Wehrmacht in 1943 on the Eastern Front. The first part of the name refers to the short northern section between Lake Peipus and the Baltic Sea at Narva.
By the time the Germans initiated the offensive, their force amounted to around 777,000 men, 2,451 tanks and assault guns (70 percent of the German armour on the Eastern Front) and 7,417 guns and mortars. [111] [130] [o] The Battle of Kursk would engulf more than 70% of Germany's military force on the Eastern Front. [44]
Polar Star (1943) — offensive to destroy Army Group North. Polkovodets Rumyantsev (1943) — defeat of Army Group South's 4th Panzer Army and Army Detachment Kempf. Prague Offensive (1945) — Soviet offensive in final stages of World War II; Ring (1943) — Destruction of the encircled army at Stalingrad. Samland (1945) — capture of ...
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