02-15-2023-1515 - Eastern Front WWII

 The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. It was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union – and still is in some of its successor states, while almost everywhere else it has been called the Eastern Front. In present-day German and Ukrainian historiography the name German-Soviet War is typically used. 

 

Eastern Front
Part of the European theatre of World War II
Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Berlin; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, December 1943; Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph of German death squads murdering Jews in Ukraine; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender; Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
Date 22 June 1941 – 8 May 1945 (3 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days) Location Europe east of Germany: Central and Eastern Europe, in later stages: Germany and Austria Result Soviet victory[b] Fall of the Third Reich Beginning of the Cold War and creation of the Eastern Bloc and the Iron Curtain Beginning of anti-Communist insurgencies Territorial changes
Soviet occupation of Central and Eastern Europe
Belligerents
Axis:  Germany  Romania (until 1944)  Hungary[a]  Italy (until 1943)  Slovakia  Croatia  Finland (until 1944)	Allies:  Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Poland Former Axis powers:  Romania (from 1944)  Bulgaria (from 1944)  Finland (from 1944)
Air and naval support:
Commanders and leaders
Adolf Hitler Walther von Brauchitsch Fedor von Bock Franz Halder Kurt Zeitzler Erich von Manstein Heinz Guderian Günther von Kluge Gerd von Rundstedt Ewald von Kleist Maximilian von Weichs Hermann Göring Hans Jeschonnek Erich Raeder Karl Dönitz Ernst Busch Ferdinand Schörner W. Ritter von Leeb Georg von Küchler Friedrich Paulus W.F. von Richthofen Ion Antonescu (until 1944) Miklós Horthy Ferenc Szálasi Benito Mussolini Italo Gariboldi Jozef Tiso Ante Pavelić Risto Ryti C. G. E. Mannerheim (until 1944)	Joseph Stalin Georgy Zhukov Kliment Voroshilov Boris Shaposhnikov Aleksandr Vasilevsky Semyon Timoshenko Aleksei Antonov Ivan Konev Fyodor Tolbukhin Ivan Bagramyan Mikhail Kirponos † Dmitry Pavlov  Konstantin Rokossovsky Nikolai Vatutin (DOW) Vasily Chuikov Semyon Budyonny Leonid Govorov Kirill Meretskov Nikolai Kuznetsov Ivan Isakov Filipp Oktyabrsky Vladimir Tributs Pavel Zhigarev Alexander Novikov Sergei Khudyakov Alexander Golovanov Michał Rola-Żymierski Zygmunt Berling Ludvík Svoboda Michael I Nicolae Rădescu Kimon Georgiev C. G. E. Mannerheim (from 1944)
Strength
1941 3,767,000 troops 1942 3,720,000 troops 1943 3,933,000 troops 1944 3,370,000 troops 1945 1,960,000 troops	1941 (Front) 2,680,000 troops 1942 (Front) 5,313,000 troops 1943 (Front) 6,724,000 troops 1944 6,800,000 troops 1945 6,410,000 troops
Casualties and losses
5.1 million dead 4.5 million captured See below.	8.7–10 million dead 4.1–5.7 million captured See below.
Civilian casualties: 18–24 million civilians dead See below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)