David Stahel reveals the real reason that Operation Barbarossa failed, a conclusion he reached after the deepest research into wehrmacht records. Author of Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East, as well as several other books on the Second World War in the east, he’s a Senior Lecturer in European History…
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The Soviet Winter Offensive, 1942: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 22
Stalin orders a general counter-offensive designed to drive the Germans back to Berlin by the end of 1942. Does it work? Map 1: The Soviet counter-offensive, Winter 1941–1942 Map 2: The Rzhev salient Map 3: The Lozovoya-Toropets offensive Sources: David Glantz, Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Invasion of Russia, 1941. Stroud, Gloucestershire,…
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The death of Barbarossa: Episode 18
In December 1941, the German army meets its match: General Winter arrives. So do huge Soviet reinforcements, and the Wehrmacht’s advance on Moscow halts and has to back up. Map 1: The Moscow Counter-Offensive, December 1941 Map 2: Tikhvin and Leningrad, Nobember 1941 Sources: David Glantz, Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Invasion…
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Life during wartime: The nazi occupation, episode 16
What was life like for the people living in the lands occupied by nazi Germany in the East? We take a close look. Link Remembering the Holodomor: Ukraine Without Hype podcast Sources: Paul Robert Magosci, A History of Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Shevchenko Scientific Society, Volodymyr Kubijovyc,…
