The Face-Off

July 29, 2022

Episode 3 of Beyond Barbarossa, the podcast on the Eastern Front

Beyond Barbarossa, the first English-language podcast in the world to focus on the Eastern Front of World War II, takes a close look at the opposing forces facing off across the border on June 22, 1941. 

Music by Nicolas Bury. 

logo of Beyond Barbarossa podcast showing painting of T34 tank

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The Eastern Front Trilogy: the true story of a Canadian drafted into the Soviet Red Army in 1941—just in time for Operation Barbarossa. 

Maps

Plan map of Operation Barbarossa, 1941

The German plan of operation Barbarossa, showing Army Groups North, Centre and South, plus the Army of Norway and the Finnish Army.

map of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

Germany and the USSR divide eastern Europe into spheres of influence.

Map of eastern front movement, June to August 1941

German advances from June 22 to August 25, 1941

Maps sources: World War II Database, United States Military Academy

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