Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

David Sumner of the Europe at War podcast joins to provide deeper insight into the last major battle in the European Theatre of the Second World War.
Two huge Red Army fronts, the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian, crush the nazi capital between them, and bring an end to the Second World War in Europe.
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In the 99th episode of the first English-language podcast that focuses on the full story of the Eastern Front of World War 2, Stalin’s top Marshals, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev, race to be the first to raise the Red Banner over the Reichstag. Who will get there first?

Maps
Map 1: The Red Army’s Vistula to Oder operation

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"From the moment Stalin heard that the Americans were across the Rhine, he knew that the race for Berlin was on.”—Antony Beevor. 
WIth the Allies on the Elbe, and the Red Army on the Oder, nazi Germany was being terminally squeezed by April 1945. But before they can drive on the prize, Berlin, the Red Army must take Vienna. 
Map 1: The Red Army’s advance, 1944–1945
 
Map 2: The Red Army on the Oder and Niesse
 
Map 3: Advance into Vienna
Map 4a: European front line, 1 April 1945
Map 4b: European front line, 15 April 1945
Historical photos
Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of 1st Belorussian Front
 

Ivan Konev, Marshal, 1st Ukrainian Front
 
Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal, 2nd Ukrainian Front
 

Fyodor Tolbukhin, Marshal, 3rd Ukrainian Front
 
 
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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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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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