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. Support on Patreon and watch the video! Map 1: Front lines in Europe, 1 March 1945 Map 2: Operation Southwind/Sudwind Map 3a: German plans…
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Season 4
Everywhere, all at once: Episode 85—East and West, north and south, 1944
Describing the Eastern Front chronologically gets very difficult in the second half of 1944, because there’s so much happening everywhere, all at the same time. After the Warsaw Rising, as described in Episode 83, the Red Army surged past its borders into Finland, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and farther. Meanwhile, the…
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Operation Typhoon, part 1: Episode 8
The Wehrmacht assembles its biggest concentrated force for the largest single campaign of Operation Barbarossa. Map: The push toward Moscow in the fall of 1941. Historical photos Image 1: German half-track, deep in the mud of rasputitsa. Image 2: Pulling vehicles through the mud of Russia in fall. Image 3:…