This was particularly true for the territories of Western Ukraine, recently rejoined to the Soviet Union, where the anti-Polish and anti-Soviet Ukrainian nationalist underground hoped in vain to establish the "independent state", relying on German armed force. It contained a secret protocol aiming to return Central Europe to the preâWorld War I status quo by dividing it between Germany and the Soviet Union. Pierre Blanchar Sortie Hitler had always intended to renege on his pact with the Soviet Union, eventually making the decision to invade in the spring of 1941. Saeuberungstag bei den deutschen Soldaten in Norwegen. The Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army, with about 800 light and medium tanks, attacked elements of the II SS Panzer Corps. Bagration was, by any measure, one of the largest single operations of the war. [145][146], Included in this figure of German losses is the majority of the 2 million German military personnel listed as missing or unaccounted for after the war. Behind the front lines, atrocities against civilians in German-occupied areas were routine, including those carried out as part of the Holocaust. The offensive at Estonia claimed another 480,000 Soviet soldiers, 100,000 of them classed as dead. However, some sources quoted in the articles on Soviet spies Richard Sorge and Willi Lehmann, say they had sent warnings of an attack on 20 or 22 June, which were treated as "disinformation". Ullstein., 2000 Page 246. Others say that Stalin was eager for Germany to be at war with capitalist countries. When the Axis countries of Central Europe were occupied by the Soviets, they changed sides and declared war on Germany (see Allied Commissions). Initially this made some progress; however, it was unsupported, and by June a German counterattack cut off and destroyed the army. However, the German lines were over-extended and the Soviet defenders counterattacked the 1st Panzer Army's spearhead from the north, forcing them to pull out of the city and behind the Mius River; the first significant German withdrawal of the war. 13 morceaux de bravoures tout aussi mélodiques que martials, comme une envie de détruire le Mur de Berlin avec des copains tout en étant maquillé façon concours... Lire la suite. 25 ANS DE BONHEUR de René Jayet Sortie le 25 mai 1943. In many ways this was a 'perfect' operation, delivered with the skill gained during the bitter fighting with the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe over four years.[109]. Skorobogatkin, et al, "50 Let Voorezhennyk sil SSR" (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1968), p. 457. I need the Ukraine so that they can't starve us out, as happened in the last war. le 14 août 1946, PIERRE ET JEAN active-duty Heer, Waffen SS, Luftwaffe ground forces, personnel of the naval coastal artillery and security units. The German forces on the Mius, now comprising the 1st Panzer Army and a reconstituted 6th Army, were by August too weak to repulse a Soviet attack on their own front, and when the Red Army hit them they retreated all the way through the Donbass industrial region to the Dnieper, losing half the farmland that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union to exploit. Amazon.fr - Achetez Mit der Kamera an der Ostfront. Maurice Gleize However, if one last great blitzkrieg offensive could be mounted, then attention could then be turned to the Allied threat to the Western Front. It goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards. In addition to Germany, hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs were dropped on their eastern allies of Romania and Hungary, primarily in an attempt to cripple Romanian oil production. ÐеÑне-оÑеннÑÑ ÐºÐ°Ð¼Ð¿Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ 1942 г. The Soviets incrementally upgraded existing designs, and simplified and refined manufacturing processes to increase production, and were helped by a mass infusion of harder to produce goods such as aviation fuel, machine tools, trucks, and high-explosives from Lend-Lease, allowing them to concentrate on a few key industries. The Wehrmacht had a total strength of 7,234,000 men by 1941. le 28 juillet 1943, DONNE-MOI TES YEUX 1943-07-07 - Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. Soviet tank-output remained the largest in the world. The war was fought between Nazi Germany, its allies and Finland, against the Soviet Union and its allies. le 10 novembre 1943, ÉCHEC AU ROY de While the German 6th and 4th Panzer Armies had been fighting their way into Stalingrad, Soviet armies had congregated on either side of the city, specifically into the Don bridgeheads, and it was from these that they struck in November 1942. The Red Army then launched a counter-offensive, Operation Kutuzov. Léo Joannon Sortie They fought in their own Waffen-SS units, including the Latvian Legion and the Galicia Division. [38][39] In the spring of 1940, Germany had mobilised 5,500,000 men. Adolf Hitler had declared his intention to invade the Soviet Union on 11 August 1939 to Carl Jacob Burckhardt, League of Nations Commissioner, by saying: Everything I undertake is directed against the Russians. While not a part of the Eastern Front operations, it is included here because the commanders and much of the forces used by the Red Army came from the European Theatre of operations and benefited from the experience gained there. [147] Official OKW Casualty Figures list 65% of Heer killed/missing/captured as being lost on the Eastern Front from 1 September 1939, to 1 January 1945 (four months and a week before the conclusion of the war), with front not specified for losses of the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe.[148]. Fernandel Sortie Hitler's direction of the war ultimately proved disastrous for the German Army, though the skill, loyalty, professionalism and endurance of officers and soldiers enabled him to keep Germany fighting to the end. It was also reflected in the ideological premise for the war, which also saw a momentous clash between two directly opposed ideologies. To the north, the Red Army surrounded a German garrison in Demyansk, which held out with air supply for four months, and established themselves in front of Kholm, Velizh, and Velikie Luki. HEURES de Yvan Noé Sortie [101] The three Soviet fronts had altogether some 2.5 million men (including 78,556 soldiers of the 1st Polish Army); 6,250 tanks; 7,500 aircraft; 41,600 artillery pieces and mortars; 3,255 truck-mounted Katyusha rocket launchers, (nicknamed "Stalin Organs"); and 95,383 motor vehicles, many of which were manufactured in the United States. On 25 December 1943 Dönitz ordered Ostfront to commence. [24][27] Soviet Union negotiated treaties of mutual assistance with France and with Czechoslovakia with the aim of containing Germany's expansion. [citation needed]. Instead, they switched the direction of their advance to approach it from the south, crossing the Malka at the end of October and entering North Ossetia. After two weeks' of heavy fighting, the 1st Panzer managed to escape the pocket, at the cost of losing almost the entire heavy equipment. [56], On 27 May 1940, Germany signed the "Oil Pact" with Romania, by which Germany would trade arms for oil. [68] On the same day, the Baltic, Western and Kiev Special military districts were renamed the Northwestern, Western and Southwestern Fronts respectively.[66]. Their progress, however, was rather slow, and they took heavy casualties in a major tank battle. The Red Army advanced from the Don 500 km (310 mi) to the west of Stalingrad, marching through Kursk (retaken on 8 February 1943) and Kharkov (retaken 16 February 1943). It also contributed to the mass extermination of populations in German-occupied Europe. Deutsche Kriegsgefangene des Zweiten Weltkriege. Finally, early in November the Red Army broke out of its bridgeheads on either side of Kiev and captured the Ukrainian capital, at that time the third largest city in the Soviet Union. comment. Roland Tual Sortie The Red Army started the strong offensive operation in the northern Orel salient and achieved a breakthrough on the flank of the German 9th Army. The grand plan was to secure the Don and Volga first and then drive into the Caucasus towards the oil fields, but operational considerations and Hitler's vanity made him order both objectives to be attempted simultaneously. In Leskinen, Jari; Juutilainen, Antti. To the south General Ivan Konev shifted the main weight of the 1st Ukrainian Front (1UF) out of Upper Silesia north-west to the Neisse River. The Soviet Union finally entered Warsaw on 17 January 1945, after the city was destroyed and abandoned by the Germans. ), "Strategische Lage im Frühjahr 1944", Jodl, Vortrag 5 May 1944. [57] In 1941, Germany only had 18% of the oil it had in peacetime. "[84]:59â62, By April 1942, the Soviet Supreme Command agreed to assume the defensive so as to "consolidate the captured ground." Operation Winter Storm, with three transferred panzer divisions, got going briskly from Kotelnikovo towards the Aksai river but became bogged down 65 km (40 mi) short of its goal. American exports and technical expertise also enabled the Soviets to produce goods that they wouldn't have been able to on their own. After the war, following the Yalta conference agreements between the Allies, the German populations of East Prussia and Silesia were displaced to the west of the OderâNeisse line, in what became one of the largest forced migrations of people in world history. Ruhestellung sowie Sport und Spiele eines Grenadierbataillons an der Ostfront. le 18 février 1944, L'ESCALIER SANS FIN 227, issued on 28 July 1942, threatened commanders who retreated without orders with punishment by court-martial. [101], The Soviet offensive had two objectives. Deaths of POW were 450,600 including 356,700 in NKVD camps and 93,900 in transit. The joint GermanâFinnish operations across the northernmost FinnishâSoviet border and in the Murmansk region are considered part of the Eastern Front. Stalin and Hitler both disregarded human life in order to achieve their goal of victory. René Clair Sortie Among other goods, Lend-Lease supplied:[51]:8â9, Lend-Lease aid of military hardware, components and goods to the Soviet Union constituted to 20% percent of the assistance. [75], Hitler then decided to resume the advance on Moscow, re-designating the panzer groups as panzer armies for the occasion. 3,878,000 were deployed in eastern Europe, 311,000 in Norway/Denmark, 1,873,000 in western Europe, 961,000 in Italy, and 826,000 in the Balkans. January 23 â The film Casablanca is released nationally in the United States and becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943. Soviet Russia had lost substantial territory in Eastern Europe as a result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 1918), where the Bolsheviks in Petrograd conceded to German demands and ceded control of Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, and other areas, to the Central Powers. In 1943â44, French payments to Germany may have risen to as much as 55% of French GDP. By the end of August 1944, it had cost the Germans ~400,000 dead, wounded, missing and sick, from whom 160,000 were captured, as well as 2,000 tanks and 57,000 other vehicles. The Wehrmacht forces were also assisted by anti-Communist partisans in places like Western Ukraine, and the Baltic states. Germany's military production was tied to resources outside its area of control, a dynamic not found amongst the Allies. After several days of heavy fighting the Soviet 1BF and 1UF punched holes through the German front line and were fanning out across central Germany. Stalin promoted some obscurantists like Grigory Kulik who opposed the mechanisation of the army and the production of tanks, but on the other hand purged the older commanders who had held their positions since the Russian Civil War of 1917â1922, and who had experience, but were deemed "politically unreliable". The above figures includes all personnel in the German Army, i.e. Two per cent of civilians and 14 per cent of the POWs were sent to the Gulag.[127][128]. le 12 avril 1944, LA FERME AUX Adémaï bandit d'honneur de Gilles Grangier Sortie le 01 septembre 1943. Both sides practised widespread scorched earth tactics, but the loss of civilian lives in the case of Germany was incomparably smaller than that of the Soviet Union, in which at least 20 million were killed. It is estimated that between 2.25 and 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in Nazi custody, out of 5.25â5.7 million. While this redeployment was in progress, gaps were left in the lines and the remnants of the German 2nd Army, which had been bottled up in a pocket near Danzig, managed to escape across the Oder. le 29 septembre 1943, OBSESSIONS de Richard Pottier Sortie Japanische Offiziere besuchen die Front zwischen Leningrad und Ilmensee. [106], At 2:41 am on 7 May 1945, at SHAEF headquarters, German Chief-of-Staff General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender documents for all German forces to the Allies at Reims in France. Istoriya SSSR., 1990, No.4). Retrouvez infos & avis sur une large sélection de DVD & Blu-ray neufs ou d'occasion. [61] In all, 5.2 million foreign workers and POWs were repatriated to the Soviet Union, 1.6 million to Poland, 1.5 million to France, and 900,000 to Italy, along with 300,000 to 400,000 each to Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Belgium. le 16 mars 1944, JE SUIS AVEC TOI The Soviet advance in the south continued into Romania and, following a coup against the Axis-allied government of Romania on 23 August, the Red Army occupied Bucharest on 31 August. For a discussion of the term itself, see, Leningrad, Moscow and Rostov: Autumn 1941, Repression and genocide in occupied territories, ÐеÑвÑй пеÑиод Ðеликой ÐÑеÑеÑÑвенной войнÑ. This refusal to take necessary action was instrumental in the destruction of major portions of the Red Air Force, lined up on its airfields, in the first days of the German-Soviet war. The toll was high: 20,000 Red Army soldiers died, plus several thousand Germans, Slovaks and Czechs. The Red Army achieved a ratio of ten to one in tanks and seven to one in aircraft over their enemy. Many hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians were executed, and millions more died from starvation as the Germans requisitioned food for their armies and fodder for their draft horses. Nejnižší ceny 450 výdejních míst 99% spokojených zákazníků Important Dnieper towns started to fall, with Zaporozhye the first to go, followed by Dnepropetrovsk. [72], This decision caused a severe leadership crisis. le 11 août 1943, LE SOLEIL DE MINUIT de André Cayatte Sortie Meanwhile, the 2nd Panzer Army failed to take Tula, the last Soviet city that stood in its way to the capital. In September 1941, Erich Koch was appointed to the Ukrainian Commissariat. [125] More than 209 cities and towns (out of 270 total) and 9,000 villages were destroyed. Panzer Corps Ostfront HN Der weg nach Leningrad 10 august 1941 #5 HN. Over three days, on a broad front incorporating four army fronts, the Red Army launched the VistulaâOder Offensive across the Narew River and from Warsaw. But the over-riding objective was to capture Berlin. le 20 octobre 1943, Coup de tête Advancing on either side of the upper Donets on a narrow corridor, the II SS Panzer Corps and the GroÃdeutschland Panzergrenadier divisions battled their way through minefields and over comparatively high ground towards Oboyan. Romania and the Soviet Union signed an armistice on 12 September. Charles Long, 1965: sfn error: no target: CITEREFGlantz1998 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFGlantzHouse1995 (, Materialien zum Vortrag des Chefs des Wehrmachtführungsstabes vom 7.11.1943 "Die strategische Lage am Anfang des fünften Kriegsjahres", (referenced to KTB OKW, IV, S. 1534 ff. Of these, 3,900,000 were deployed in eastern Europe, 180,000 in Finland, 315,000 in Norway, 110,000 in Denmark, 1,370,000 in western Europe, 330,000 in Italy, and 610,000 in the Balkans. Stalin's five-year plans of the 1930s had resulted in the industrialisation of the Urals and central Asia. Claude According to British historian Geoffrey Hosking, "The full demographic loss to the Soviet peoples was even greater: since a high proportion of those killed were young men of child-begetting age, the postwar Soviet population was 45 to 50 million smaller than post-1939 projections would have led one to expect."[114]. Germany's allies, in total, provided a significant number of troops and material to the front. le 25 novembre 1943, VAUTRIN de page 32), ÐемÑкое Ð.Ð. [105] Altogether, the Berlin operation (16 April â 2 May) cost the Red Army 361,367 casualties (dead, wounded, missing and sick) and 1,997 tanks and assault guns. le 19 septembre 1945, CÉCILE EST MORTE de Louis Daquin Sortie Jacques Houssin Sortie In the south the Red Army lunged over the Donets River at Izyum and drove a 100 km (62 mi) deep salient. de Jean Mamy Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania would return to the Soviet control, while Poland and Romania would be divided. [11] He envisaged settling Germans there, as according to Nazi ideology the Germanic people constituted the "master race", while exterminating or deporting most of the existing inhabitants to Siberia and using the remainder as slave labour. [28] The German Anschluss of Austria in 1938 and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia (1938â1939) demonstrated the impossibility of establishing a collective security system in Europe,[29] a policy advocated by the Soviet ministry of foreign affairs under Maxim Litvinov. The character of the war was thus determined by the political leaders and their ideology to a much greater extent than in any other theatre of World War II. British and Commonwealth forces also contributed directly to the fighting on the Eastern Front through their service in the Arctic convoys and training Red Air Force pilots, as well as in the provision of early material and intelligence support. Vom Beginn des Unternehmens ... zwischen Donez und Dnjepr (1941-1943) et des millions de livres en stock sur Amazon.fr. They assumed the Red Army would not attack again, with the spring approaching, but on 3 March the Soviet Ukrainian Front went over to the offensive.
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