Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2
You know about Stalingrad, the siege of Leningrad, maybe Kursk. But how well do you know the history of the ”Russian front” of the Second World War? Join this detailed description of the largest part of WW2 in Europe, the titanic clash between tyrants Hitler and Stalin. Hosted on Audioboom. See Privacy Policy (https://audioboom.com/about/privacy) for more information.
Episodes
From 1940 to 1945, steady traffic across the North Sea from the Shetland Islands to the west coast of Norway evacuated civilians and brought in agents, weapons, arms and intelligence.
Author J.L. Oakley joins the podcast again to describe this under-appreciated part of World War 2.
Map: The Shetland Bus route
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Books
The nazis thought they would find a brethren Nordic race in Norway. The people's resistance to their occupation brought about an even more brutal occupation.
Part 2 of the conversation with author J.L. Oakley
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A conversation with J.L. Oakley, author of three historical novels set in Norway during the German occupation of 1940 to 1945
Like the Eastern Front, Norway’s experience during the Second World War is not well known in the English-speaking world. Author Janet Oakley is helping correct that.
Books mentioned
80 years ago to the day of this publication a handsome young man approached Canadian media and officials with proof that the Soviet Union was spying on its allies. The Cold War was on.
Former Soviet cypher clerk Igor Gouzenko, hooded to protect his identity, bein...
Historian and author of Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito and the Descent into Total War
James Scott’s latest book, Empire of Ashes, describes in detail the flights that brought nuclear bombs to Japan in August 1945. It also draws intimate portraits of the two leading antagonists on those days, U.S. President Harry Truman and Japanese Emperor Hirohito, from their earliest days through the personal transformat...
In July and August, the leaders and delegations from the “Big Three” victors of the Second World War reshape the borders of Europe and set up a new world order.
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The USA, UK and USSR have defeated nazi Germany. The Allies control Europe. In July 1945, the leaders Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin meet outside Berlin to decide what to do with it.
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For the 85th anniversary of the launch of the Eastern Front of World War 2, a replay of the first episode of Beyond Barbarossa.
Video, graphics and maps now available to all! https://youtu.be/rrnoEgVcRvE
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The fighting has ended in Europe—but with millions of displaced people surging in all directions across Europe, it cannot be called peace. While millions of POWs look forward to going home, forced labourers and people of eastern Europe know they have no home to return to. And try to escape the communist yoke.
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When Berlin surrendered, the war in Europe continued for another week—in Czechoslovakia and its capital, Prague.
Sources
Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945. New York, NY, USA: Penguin Random House, 2002.
Antony Beevor, The Second World War. New York, NY, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
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David Sumner of the Europe at War podcast joins to provide deeper insight into the last major battle in the European Theatre of the Second World War.
Two huge Red Army fronts, the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian, crush the nazi capital between them, and bring an end to the Second World War in Europe.
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In the 99th episode of the first English-language podcast that focuses on the full story of the Eastern Front of World War 2, Stalin’s top Marshals, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev, race to be the first to raise the Red Banner over the Reichstag. Who will get there first?
Maps
Map 1: The Red Army’s Vistula to Oder operation
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"From the moment Stalin heard that the Americans were across the Rhine, he knew that the race for Berlin was on.”—Antony Beevor.
WIth the Allies on the Elbe, and the Red Army on the Oder, nazi Germany was being terminally squeezed by April 1945. But before they can drive on the prize, Berlin, the Red Army must take Vienna.
Map 1: The Red Army’s advance, 1944–1945
Map 2: The Red ...
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.
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The Red Army penetrates deep into Germany, leading to the redrawing of eastern European borders after.
Map 1: The Oder offensive–March 1945
Map 2: The Lower Silesian Offensive
Map 3: The East Pomeranian Offensive
Map 4a: European fronts, 15 February 1945
Map 4b: European fronts, 15 March 1945
Photos
Marshal Ivan Konev, Commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front
General Walther Wencke, chief of staff, Army Group Vistula, F...
Why did the Yalta Conference end the way it did? Why did Churchill try an end-run around Roosevelt? Why did Roosevelt try to curry Stalin’s favour? What would this mean to post-war history?
Author Giles Milton joins to discuss some of the Second World War’s most perplexing questions.
People
Author Giles Milton
His latest book, The Stalin Affair: The impossible alliance that won the war
The Big ...
Why were the Yalta Conference’s decisions so vague? Why did Stalin get everything he wanted? And why did Roosevelt act so naively?
Giles Milton, bestselling author of The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War, joins the podcast today to help understand the relationships that had the greatest impact on the second meeting of the Big Three of the Second World War.
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Author Giles Milton
The Stalin A...
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt meet in Malta in the Mediterranean in February 1945, to prepare to meet Josef Stalin in the second Big Three conference on Soviet territory—Yalta.
It was a meeting that shaped the world for decades.
Map 1: Malta to Yalta
Map 2: The Western Front, 1 February 1945
Map 3: The Pacific Theatre, 1 February 1945
Map 4: Poland’s shift west, 1945
Photos
Le...
The Red Army continues its continual advance onto German soil—and the flight of German civilians and military.
Map 1: The siege of Kongisberg
Map 2: Samland
The Samland Peninsula in 1905, showing city and town names still present in 1945.
Map 3: The (second) East Prussian Offensive
Map 4: The advance across Poland
Historical photos
Franklin Roosevelt meets Winston Churchill in Malta, 2 Feb...
After 10 shattering blows on the Eastern Front in 1944, the Western Allies and the USSR continue to compress nazi Germany in January 1945.
Map 1: The compressing front
1a: 1 January 1944
1b: 1 January 1945
1c: 15 January 1945
Map 2: The siege of Budapest, January 1945
Map 3: The Vistula-Oder campaign, January 1945
Map 4: The East Prussia offensive
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