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Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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34:37

Lviv: Another crushing blow—Episode 80 of the first...

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 ·

2025/08/11

Stalin’s one-two punch against Germany is the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive, hitting in Ukraine as Bagration smashes into Byelorussia. It also lays bare the brutality within the Red Army. Map 1: The Byelorussian Balcony Map 2: The Lvov-Sandomierz Operation Map 3: The Eastern Front, 15 June 1944 Map 4: The Eastern Front, 15 July 1944 Map 5: The Eastern Front, 15 August 1944 Ivan Konev, commander, 1st Ukrainian Front Lt. General Pavel Rybalko, commander, 3rd Guards Tank Army Josef

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55:39

Nuances of Lend-Lease with Angus Wallace: Episode 79

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2025/07/07

Did the Lend-Lease program save the Soviet Union? For the Season 3 finale, Angus Wallace of the World War 2 podcast joins to offer a nuanced interpretation. Angus Wallace, host and producer of The World War 2 podcast The Lend-Lease Act British Valentine tanks to be sent to USSR under Lend-Lease, 1942. The Bell P-39 Aircobra, one of the fighters the U.S. sent to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease. A Hawker Hurricane fighter sent for the Red Air Force. Fleets of Studebaker, Ford

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44:23

Operation Bagration: Episode 78

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2025/06/22

The USSR’s answer to D-Day in June 1944 takes the Germans by surprise—and annihilates a whole army group.Map 1: The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive, the end of the Continuation War against Finland Map 2: The "Byelorussian Balcony” Map 3: Attack on Vitebsk Map 4: Rokossovsky’s attack on Bobruisk Map 5: Attack on Minsk Photos Minsk, July 1944 Destroyed German armour on road to Minsk German POWs in Moscow, July 1944 Soviet and Polish Home Army (AK) soldiers together in

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46:33

On the eve of Bagration: the next crushing blow in...

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2025/06/09

Author Craig W.H. Luther joins us to compare two anniversaries on the same date, 22 June, three years apart: Operations Barbarossa in 1941, and Operation Bagration in 1944. Craig W.H. Luther The First Day on the Eastern Front: Germany Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941 Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow, June–December 1941 Guderian’s Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat on the Eastern Front, 1941 Map 1: Operation Barbarossa, 22 June

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38:23

The Forgotten Army: Poland’s Armia Krajowa

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2025/05/26

A major army, 400,000 strong, made a major difference in World War 2. Yet it doesn’t get enough attention in the West (nor, unfortunately, on this podcast). It’s the Armia Krajowa, the Polish Home Army. From exposing the Holocaust, to breaking the German Enigma Code, to helping destroy V-2 rockets, the AK bridged the Eastern and Western Fronts of the Second World War.Map 1: German invasion of Poland, September 1939 Map 2: Soviet invasion of Poland, September 1939 Historic photos Flag of the Armia

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28:32

Where we were in World War 2 in ’44: Episode 75

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2025/05/12

It’s been a year of stunning, swift change on the Eastern Front of World War 2. And momentous events are coming soon — so it’s high time for a recap of the past year.Links Episode 50: Looking back, taking stock https://beyondbarbarossa.podbean.com/e/looking-back-taking-stock-episode-50/ The Battle(s) of Kursk Episode 51: Summer 1943 planshttps://beyondbarbarossa.podbean.com/e/summer-1943-plans-season-3-opener-episdoe-51/ Episode 52: Zitadelle, the Battle of Kursk, Part

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30:42

The Fall of Berlin—80th anniversary with Anthony...

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2025/05/02

On 2 May 1945, Red Army soldiers raised the Soviet Red Banner with hammer and sickle on the cupola of the Reichstag in Berlin. For the 80th anniversary of that famous photograph, Anthony Tucker-Jones joins the ‘cast to discuss the Fall of Berlin.“Raising a Flag over the Reichstag” shows Red Army soldier Aleksei Kovalev hoisting the Red Banner over the cupola of the Reichstag. This was staged on 2 May 1945, after the Red Army had taken full control of the building. Historian and author Anthony

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40:00

Forward to the past: The Battle for Berlin — Episode...

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2025/04/28

This episode, we jump forward for the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. To guide us through the battles for Berlin, we are joined by the author of The Fall of Berlin: The Final Days of Hitler’s Evil Regime. Author Anthony Tucker-Jones His website and books: https://atuckerjones.com/ Maps Map 1: The front lines, 15 April 1945 Map 2: The front lines, 1 May 1945 Map 3: Final operations, April-May 1945 Map 4: The Red Army’s Vistula-Oder offensive Map 5:

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48:23

The Third Crushing Blow: Odesa and Crimea offensives

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2025/04/14

In 1944, the Red Army delivers its third crushing blow on the Axis forces in eastern Europe: two major offensives to recapture the rest of Ukraine, and the Crimean peninsula. Map 1: Northern Black Sea coast and southern Ukraine The range where the two mighty blows were delivered. Ploesti, Romania is to the far left of the map, just north of Bucharest. Map 2: Map by Scott Bury Map 3: The Red Army’s Crimean offensive, 1944 Image 1: Issa Pliyev, Commander, Cavalry-Mechanized Group The

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57:01

World War 2 links to Ukraine: The Latest: A...

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2025/03/31

From the beginning of Russia’s illegal and brutal assault on sovereign Ukraine, Ukraine: The Latest has covered the war every week day. Francis Dearnley, Executive Editor for Audio for Ukraine: The Latest, joins the podcast to look at the historical links and parallels with the Eastern Front of World War 2.Francis Dearnley, Executive Editor for Audio, Ukraine: The Latest, from The Telegraph Ukraine: The Latest, daily podcast from The Telegraph David Knowles, creator of the Ukraine: The Latest

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50:42

Europe at War: Episode 70 of Beyond Barbarossa, the...

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2025/03/24

Beyond Barbarossa is no longer the only podcast focusing on the Eastern Front of World War II. David Sumner, host and producer of the Europe at War podcast, joins to discuss the Battle of the Halbe Pocket. The Europe at War podcast on all platforms: https://pohttps://tr.ee/faCigcYaE5 David Sumner, podcaster Map: The Battle of the Halbe Pocket, April 1945 Photos from David Sumner The Halbe forest, 2025 A defensive hole dug in the floor of the Halbe Forest A bullet shell with the round

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32:33

The reality of occupation: Episode 69

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2025/03/10

Russian occupation of Ukraine today is not the first time. Here are some readings that can make it real for today’s listeners. Map: Ukraine under occupation, 1941–1943 Source: Ukraine, A Historical Atlas by Paul Robert Magosci and Geoffrey J. Matthews Sources Lubomyr Luciuk, The Galicia Division: They Fought for Ukraine. The Kashtan Press, 2023. Scott Bury, Under the Nazi Heel. Ottawa, ON: The Written Word Communications Co., 2016.

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19:23

Ambush in the Oval Office

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2025/03/01

A special episode of Beyond Barbarossa.What happened in Washington DC on 28 February 2025 has echoes of 1938, and ominous omens for the future.

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34:02

The broad front: Episode 68

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2025/02/24

In the north and the south, the Red Amy makes great advances in the Eastern Front in February 1944. Map 1: The Eastern Front, February 1944 Map 2: Popov’s Baltic Front pushes the Germans back to Lake Peipus Map 3: German forces in the Dnipro Bend, February 1944 Map 4: The European theatre at the end of February 1944. Map 5: The Pacific theatre Markian Popov Nikolai Vatutin The Chindits in Burma, 1944

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41:03

The Red Army has the momentum: Episode 67

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 ·

2025/02/10

In January and February 1944, Stalin's "broad front" strategy takes hold and the Red Army gains the momentum in the war on the Eastern Front.Map 1: The Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket Map 2: The Advance on Narva Map 3: The Battle of Narva and Lake Peipus What looks like "Hapba" is Cyrillic script for "Narva." The inset shows the southern end of Lake Peipus and the Red Army's temporary bridgehead on the west side. Map 4: The Panther Line Map 5: The breakout to Lysyanka Map 6a: The Eastern

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31:10

Crushing Blows: Episode 66

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 ·

2025/01/27

The first two of ten "crushing blows" against the German invaders of the USSR in 1944: Zhitomyr and Leningrad.Map 1: The Zhitomyr-Berdichiv Offensive Map 2: Cherkassy or Kherson Pocket Map 3: Leningrad, 1941–1943 Map 4: Leningrad lifeline Map 5: Operation Iskra Map 6: Operation Polar Star Map 7: Liberation of Leningrad, push to Panther Line Sources Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The

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43:21

The Devils' Alliance: A conversation with author...

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 ·

2025/01/13

What was the USSR doing between September 1939 and June 1941? It was allied with nazi Germany, of course. Historian Roger Moorhouse, author of books including The Devils' Alliance, describes the lasting impact of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and the strategic factors that ended it. Roger Moorhouse The Devils' Alliance Roger Moorhouse's books: https://www.rogermoorhouse.com/books Map: The division of eastern Europe according to the secret protocols of the pact

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38:17

The Devils' Alliance: A conversation with author ...

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 ·

2025/01/06

The nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 gave Hitler and the nazis the green light to invade Poland and start World War 2. Two weeks later, Stalin's Red Army joined the nazis in dismembering Poland. Historian and author Roger Moorhouse has dived deep into this notorious but poorly understood alignment in The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Staline, 1939–1941. He joins the podcast in a two-part discussion of the importance of the agreement between the 20th century's two bloodiest

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43:52

A seasonal special: Christmas 1942 in Stalingrad

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 ·

2024/12/23

Looking for a break in the Christmas season sweetness? Beyond Barbarossa returns you to the Eastern Front in December 1942. Hitler and Stalin's mutual stubbornness collide on the Russian steppe. For the Germans of the 6th Army, Christmas 1942 was a hungry Yule in the freezing Cauldron. Map 1: Operation Uranus, November and December 1942 Map 2: Operation Winter Storm: The German relief attempt Map 3: Operation Winter Storm stalled Failure: Luftwaffe supplies the trapped 6th Army in the

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45:29

The curtain falls on Germany in 1943: Episode 63

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 ·

2024/12/16

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

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