The curtain falls on Germany in 1943: Episode 63
Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 · [email protected]
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Show Notes
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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