Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

For the 85th anniversary of the launch of the Eastern Front of World War 2, a replay of the first episode of Beyond Barbarossa.
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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. 
Morse code by Thane Brown
Music composed and recorded by Nicolas Bury

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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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