Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

What was life like for the people living in the lands occupied by nazi German in the East? We take a close look. 

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Remembering the Holodomor: Ukraine Without Hype podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-35-remembering-the-holodomor/id1537219548?i=1000587845635

Sources: 

Paul Robert Magosci, A History of Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. 

Shevchenko Scientific Society, Volodymyr Kubijovyc, editor, Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963.

Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 

Wikipedia: The Eastern Front of World War II.

- Generalgouvernement

- Reichskommissariat Ostland

- Reichskommissariat Ukraine

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One of my favourite podcasters, Sebastian Major of Our Fake History, joins me for a talk about historical myths about the Eastern Front of World War II. 

It's one of the best podcasts out there about history. Listen to it on your preferred podcasting app, and find it at OurFakeHistory.com.

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The battle for Crimea is almost a microcosm of the entire war on the Eastern Front of World War II. 

Satellite photo of southern Crimea: Severnaya Bay is the long, narrow bay curving upward into the land. Sevastopol is located on the smaller bay at right angles. 

This image was taken by the Nasa Expedition 20 crew. - NASA Earth Observatory. Source: Wikimedia Commons. 

Map source: Nations Online Project. https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/Crimea-map.htm 

Other sources:

Clayton Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942: The Soviet Perspective. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2016.

David Glantz, Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2011.

David Stahel, Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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A conversation with Larysa Zariczniak, host and producer of the Wandering the Edge podcast on Ukrainian culture and history, with a spot of travel—when Ukraine isn't being invaded. 

We spoke about Ukrainian culture, history, parallels between 1941 and 2022, and what the experiences of those two periods can tell us about the Ukrainian cultural identity.

Wandering the Edge is available on all podcasting platforms. Visit the website at WanderingTheEdge.net.

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The 900 Days of Leningrad's siege saw the greatest destruction in modern history, and the larges loss of life in a modern city. It dwarfed urban campaigns elsewhere in the Second World War by a factor of magnitude. 

This episode links this immense struggle with the rest of the war in the East. 

Map 1: Finnish and Soviet forces on the eve of Barbarossa, 1941 

Map 2: Finnish offensive operations in Karelia, summer and autumn, 1941

Map 3: The siege of Leningrad 

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The German 36th Mountain Corps moves through Lapland to cut the vital Murmansk Railroad to Leningrad. But under the midnight sun, it meets a foe even more difficult than the Red Army.

Map 1: Finland 1940-41

The red area around Salla is the target for the 36th Mountain Corps. 

Figure 1: Finnish soldiers moving through the Arctic forest on their way to the Murmansk railroad

Sources:

David Glantz, Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2011.

David Stahel, Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Operation Silver Fox: The History of Nazi Germany's Arctic Invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Charles River Editors, 2016.

Timeline of World War II (1941). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1941) 

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Operation Silver Fox in the farthest northern reaches of continental Europe had a direct impact on the war in the Eastern Front.

Map 1: Finland from 1920 to 1938

Map 2: The Winter War, 1939-1940

Map 3: Areas Finland ceded to the USSR after the Winter War

Sources: 

Operation Silver Fox: The History of Nazi Germany's Arctic Invasion of the Soviet Union During World War II
Published by Charles River Editors, 2016

Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East, by David Stahel. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2009.

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German's final, final assault on the capital of the USSR in November 1941. 

Map 1: The Battle of Moscow, November 1941.

Map 20: The bigger picture. 

Source: U.S. Army archives. 

Soviets fighting back during "offensive weather":

Rasputitsa: 

Defense of Moscow: 

Women militia training in Moscow, fall 1941:

New T-34 tanks roll off the assembly line, 1941

Soviet air power: 

The Yakovlev Yak fighter

Ilyushin Il-2 in flight near Moscow, December 1941

Winter 

Abandoned German vehicles in the snow, on the highway from Volokolamsk to Moscow, December 1941:

Wrecked Panzer III, December 1941:

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The Wehrmacht assembles its biggest concentrated force for the largest single campaign of Operation Barbarossa. 

Image 1: German half-track, deep in the mud of rasputitsa. 

Image 2: Pulling vehicles through the mud of Russia in fall. 

Image 3: Eventually, the Germans had to resort to horses to haul even their field guns during rasputitsa. 

Map: The push toward Moscow in the fall of 1941. 

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Sources: 

David M. Glantz: Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud, Gloucesgershire, UK, The History Press, 2013. 

Peter G. Tsouras, editor: Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal on the Eastern Front. New York, NY: Ivy Books, 1995.

David Stahel: Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 

David Stahel: Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 

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