Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

The curtain falls on Germany in 1943: Episode 63


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Episode 63: at the end of 1943, the situation for nazi Germany and communist USSR on the Eastern Front is radically different from the end of 1942. Plus, the Cairo and Tehran Conferences promise to reshape the geo-political world.

Map 1: The Red Army advances to, and past the Wotan Line

Map 2: The front lines, 15 November 1943

   

Map 3: The front lines, 31 December 1943

  

Historical photos: The German Panther (Panzer V) vs. the Soviet T-34-85

 

Soviet photo loading artillery at Nikopol bridgehead

Sources:

Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. 

Prit Buttar, Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.

Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

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