ww2 Eastern Front

2 SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” at the Battle of Kursk, July – August 1943

The Battle of Kursk The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on[…]

Summer offensive in the Soviet Union Fall Blau, the huge Axis summer offensive in the Soviet Union, is supposed to[…]

Gates of Moscow The Wehrmacht is halted by the Red Army at the gates of Moscow. Not only that, but[…]

Ninth Army The story of the Ninth Army’s desperate attempts to escape Soviet captivity during the last days of WWII.[…]

German occupied territory It is two years this week since Germany invaded Poland. That European conflict soon became a global[…]

September 12, 1941 The German invasion of the Soviet Union has taken enormous amounts of territory, but this week the[…]

Submachine Gun Tactics A look at the organization and tactics used by the Soviet Red Army’s SMG units during WWII.[…]

The Battle Of Kursk Summer 1943. After two years of war, Hitler was no closer to victory in the East,[…]

Courland Pocket The Courland Pocket was formed in late 1944 as Army Group North retreated from East in the face[…]

Stalingrad Firestorm As Paulus’s 6th Army crosses the Don river, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen’s Luftflotte 4 launches a devastating air[…]