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Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

De: Scott Bury
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You know about Stalingrad, the siege of Leningrad, maybe Kursk. But how well do you know the history of the ”Russian front” of the Second World War? Join this detailed description of the largest part of WW2 in Europe, the titanic clash between tyrants Hitler and Stalin.Copyright 2022 All rights reserved. Mundial
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  • Spring Awakening and Upper Silesia: Episode 97

    Spring Awakening and Upper Silesia: Episode 97
    Mar 23 2026

    The #6 Top World War 2 podcast continues following the Red Army’s advance into Hungary and Germany—and the expensive failure of the German Operation Spring Awakening.

    Map 1: Front lines in Europe, 1 March 1945

    Map 2: Operation Southwind/Sudwind

    Map 3a: German plans for Operation Spring Awakening

    Map 4: The Soviet counter-attack, The Lake Balaton counter-offensive Map 5: Following Operation Spring Awakening

    Map 6: Upper Silesian locations in 2026

    Map 7: The front lines, Europe, 1 April 1945

    People

    Rodion Malinovsky

    Fyodor Tolbukhin

    Heinz Guderian

    Friedrich Schorner

    Walther Nehring (right)
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    41 m
  • Silesia, Part 1—Episode 96

    Silesia, Part 1—Episode 96
    Mar 9 2026

    The Red Army penetrates deep into Germany, leading to the redrawing of eastern European borders after.

    Map 1: The Oder offensive–March 1945

    Map 2: The Lower Silesian Offensive

    Map 3: The East Pomeranian Offensive

    Map 4a: European fronts, 15 February 1945

    Map 4b: European fronts, 15 March 1945

    Photos

    Marshal Ivan Konev, Commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front

    General Walther Wencke, chief of staff, Army Group Vistula, February 1945

    Child soldiers in the wehrmacht: Hitler Youth in Breslau (Wroclaw), February 1945

    Breslau (Wroclaw) in fighting, 1945
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    36 m
  • The Impossible Alliance, Part 2: Episode 95

    The Impossible Alliance, Part 2: Episode 95
    Feb 23 2026

    Why did the Yalta Conference end the way it did? Why did Churchill try an end-run around Roosevelt? Why did Roosevelt try to curry Stalin’s favour? What would this mean to post-war history?

    Author Giles Milton joins to discuss some of the Second World War’s most perplexing questions.

    People

    Author Giles Milton

    His latest book, The Stalin Affair: The impossible alliance that won the war

    The Big Three: Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill

    Kathleen “Kathy” or “Puff” Harriman, daughter of Roosevelt’s right hand and Ambassador to the USSR in 1945, Averell Harriman

    Averell Harriman

    Pamela Churchill, WInston Churchill’s daughter-in-law in 1945, and later, Mrs. Averell Harriman

    Stalin and Churchill at the Moscow Conference, 1944

    Franklin Roosevelt in 1945 Map 1: The division of Germany after May 1945

    Map 2: Invasion of Poland, 1939 Map 3: Poland moves 100 km west

    Sources

    Giles Milton, author: https://www.gilesmilton.com/

    • Books
    • podcast: Ministry of Secrets
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    42 m
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