Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

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

  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 2https://beyondbarbarossa.podbean.com/e/zitadelle—the-battle-of-kursk-part-2-episode-52/ Episode 53: The Battle of Kursk, part 3https://beyondbarbarossa.podbean.com/e/the-battle-of-kursk-part-3-episode-53/ Episode 67: The Red Army has the momentum https://beyondbarbarossa.podbean.com/e/the-red-army-has-the-momentum-episode-67/ Friedrich Paulus, commander of the German 6th Army in 1942, the only German Field Marshal ever to surrender Maps Map 1: The Axis’ high-water mark, Europe Map 2: Axis’ high-water mark, Asia-Pacific Map 3: North Africa, summer 1942 Map 4: Germans advance to the Volga Map 5: Operation Winter Storm Map 6: 4th Battle of Kharkiv Map 7: Battle of Kursk Map 8: Operation Little Saturn Map 9: Rzhev Salient Map 10: Korsun/Cherkassy pocket Map 11: Crushing blows: the front lines in the Eastern Front, April 1944

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• The Fall of Berlin—80th anniversary with Anthony Tucker-Jones: Episode 74

  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 Tucker-Jones   Two of his books  Learn more about Anthony Tucker-Jones on his website.    Map 1: Three Red Army Fronts advance on Berlin   Map 2: The final battle for Berlin   Movies cited: Downfall, in German with subtitles Come and See, in Russian  

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• Forward to the past: The Battle for Berlin — Episode 73 of the podcast on the Eastern Front of World War 2

  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: 1st Belorussian Front’s drive through the Seelow Heights to Berlin     Map 6: The battles for Berlin at the end of April 1945  Books     

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• The Third Crushing Blow: Odesa and Crimea offensives

  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 Red Army, 4th Guards Cavalry Corps advancing across southern Ukraine, 1944   Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, with Adolf Hitler in Budapest, 1938     The Red Army marches into “liberated” Odesa, 1944   Note the women soldiers in the ranks.  Sources: Prit Buttar, The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2020. Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, The History Press, 2017.  Wikipedia: The Crimean Offensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_offensive — The Odesa Offensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa_Offensive 

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• World War 2 links to Ukraine: The Latest: A conversation with Francis Dearnley—Episode 71

  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 podcast  Links Ukraine: The Latest on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ukraine-the-latest/id1612424182 and available on all major podcast platforms. Francis Dearnley’s interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy  Winston Churchill’s World War II memoirs   Guy Sajer’s The Forgotten Soldier    Antony Beevor’s Berlin 1945 

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