Soviet-German Front

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The Soviet-German Front was the vast and brutal World War II battlefield between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, marked by some of the largest and deadliest military operations in history.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II front
military front
theater of war
alsoKnownAs Eastern Front
Soviet-German Front
surface form: German-Soviet Front
belligerent Allied powers
Axis powers
Luftwaffe
Red Army
Soviet Air Forces
Wehrmacht
casualties tens of millions of military and civilian deaths
characteristic extreme brutality
harsh winter conditions
high casualty rates
large-scale tank battles
largest land theater of World War II
massive encirclement operations
commandStructure Army Group Centre
surface form: German Army Group Centre

Army Group North
surface form: German Army Group North

Heeresgruppe Süd
surface form: German Army Group South

Soviet Southwestern Front
surface form: Soviet Southwestern Front (Red Army formation)

Soviet Stalingrad Front
surface form: Soviet Stalingrad Front (Red Army formation)

Soviet Western Front (Red Army formation)
conflict Eastern Front
surface form: Eastern Front of World War II

Soviet-German Front self-linksurface differs
surface form: German-Soviet War
countryInvolved Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
endDate 1945-05-09
historicalSignificance decisive in determining the outcome of World War II in Europe
location Central Europe
Eastern Europe
German-occupied Europe
Soviet Union
majorOperation Battle of Berlin
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Moscow
Battle of Stalingrad
Operation Bagration
Operation Barbarossa
Siege of Leningrad
Vistula–Oder Offensive
opponent Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
partOf World War II
result Soviet occupation of the Baltic states
surface form: Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe

defeat of Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front
startDate 1941-06-22

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Battle of Köslin partOf Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
Ivan Yefimovich Petrov militaryTheater Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
German occupation of Ukraine partOf Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
Donbas Strategic Offensive partOf Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
Vilnius offensive partOf Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
memoir "Verlorene Siege" mainSubject Soviet-German Front
subject surface form: Verlorene Siege
this entity surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
Vasily Popov conflict Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
German occupation of parts of the Soviet Union partOf Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: German-Soviet War
Sydir Kovpak conflict Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: German-Soviet War
Soviet 12th Army participatedIn Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: German–Soviet War
Battle of Brody (1941) partOf Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: German–Soviet War
Soviet 6th Army belligerentIn Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: German–Soviet War
Operation Barbarossa (Northern sector) politicalContext Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: Nazi–Soviet conflict
Commander of Army Group North historicalContext Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: German–Soviet War
Soviet Northwestern Front participatedIn Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: German–Soviet War
KV tank family usedIn Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: German–Soviet War
Bryansk sector theaterOfWar Soviet-German Front
this entity surface form: German–Soviet War