Eastern Front

The Eastern Front of World War II was the theatre of war covering the conflict in central and eastern Europe from June 1941 to May 1945. It was notorious for its unprecedented ferocity, destruction, and immense loss of life.

At 04:45 on 22 June 1941, three million German soldiers, to be joined by their Italian, Romanian and other allies over the next weeks, burst over the borders and stormed into the Soviet Union therefore creating new theater of war in Second World War, the Eastern Front. For a month the three-pronged offensive was completely unstoppable as the Panzer forces encircled hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops in huge pockets that were then reduced by slower-moving infantry divisions while the panzers charged on, following the Blitzkrieg doctrine. Following various setbacks in terms of weather, supplies and strategic mistakes the Axis offensive operations would eventually grind down to halt with Red Army gaining slowly upper hand that would lead this battle of attrition eventually to decisive Allied victory.