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Eastern Front (World War II)

Also Known As Great Patriotic War The Soviet Union's own name for this conflict.
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The Eastern Front of the Second World War was the theatre of war between Nazi Germany and its Axis allies and the Soviet Union, fought from the German invasion of 22 June 1941 to the German surrender on 8 May 1945. It was among the largest and most destructive theatres of the war, with military and civilian deaths together estimated in the tens of millions, and it ended in Soviet victory. The Soviet Union itself called this conflict the Great Patriotic War. No single commander directed the entire multi-year front; Georgy Zhukov was one of several senior Soviet marshals who held major commands on it, credited here for his central roles at Stalingrad and Berlin.

Facts
Start Year
1941 1
End Year
1945 1
Combatants
Nazi Germany and its Axis allies against the Soviet Union 1
Outcome
Soviet victory; the Red Army drove German forces back across Eastern Europe and captured Berlin in 1945 1
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Georgy Zhukov, Commanders

Zhukov held major commands on this front (Stalingrad, then the 1st Belorussian Front at Berlin) but, unlike this atlas's other founding wars, no single commander led the entire multi-year Eastern Front; led-by is reserved here for the individual battles where Zhukov's command role is directly documented.

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1. Wikipedia: Eastern Front (World War II)
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Wikipedia: Red Army
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Wikipedia: Battle of Kursk
WikipediaBattles and Campaigns: Battle of KurskView the Source
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