Season 4 · Episode 91
The Vise Closes: the Eastern Front, episode 91
Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 · [email protected]
January 5, 202636m 45s
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Show Notes
After 10 shattering blows on the Eastern Front in 1944, the Western Allies and the USSR continue to compress nazi Germany in January 1945.
Map 1: The compressing front
1a: 1 January 1944
1b: 1 January 1945
1c: 15 January 1945
Map 2: The siege of Budapest, January 1945
Map 3: The Vistula-Oder campaign, January 1945
Map 4: The East Prussia offensive
PhotosThe Budapest Chain Bridge destroyed, January 1945
Ruins of Warsaw, even in 1947
Source: New York photographer Henry N. Cobb, taken in 1947, via Rare Historical Photos.
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