Axis forces on the Eastern Front

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World War II military formation military coalition

Axis forces on the Eastern Front were the German-led coalition of European armies that fought the Soviet Union in some of World War II’s largest and most brutal campaigns.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Axis (until August 1944)	1

Statements (69)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II military formation ⓘ military coalition ⓘ
casualties	millions of soldiers killed, wounded, or captured ⓘ
conflict	Eastern Front ⓘ surface form: Eastern Front (World War II)
country	Finland ⓘ Francoist Spain ⓘ Germany ⓘ Independent State of Croatia ⓘ Kingdom of Hungary ⓘ Kingdom of Italy ⓘ Kingdom of Romania ⓘ Slovak Republic (1939–1945) ⓘ
endTime	1945-05 ⓘ
engagedIn	Battle of Kharkov ⓘ Battle of Kiev (1941) ⓘ Battle of Kursk ⓘ Battle of Moscow ⓘ Battle of Smolensk (1941) ⓘ Battle of Stalingrad ⓘ Case Blue ⓘ Operation Bagration ⓘ surface form: Operation Bagration (as opposing force) Operation Barbarossa ⓘ Siege of Leningrad ⓘ Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) ⓘ
geographicScope	Baltic Sea coast region ⓘ surface form: Baltic region Belarus ⓘ Caucasus ⓘ European part of the Soviet Union ⓘ Leningrad Oblast ⓘ surface form: Leningrad region Moscow Oblast ⓘ surface form: Moscow region Ukraine ⓘ
ideology	Nazism ⓘ anti-communism ⓘ fascism ⓘ
included	Croatian units ⓘ Finnish Army ⓘ Hungarian 2nd Army ⓘ surface form: Hungarian Army Italian Army (Kingdom of Italy) ⓘ surface form: Italian Army Romanian Armed Forces ⓘ surface form: Romanian Army Slovak Armed Forces ⓘ surface form: Slovak Army Spanish Blue Division ⓘ
leader	Nazi Germany ⓘ
notableCharacteristic	involvement in war crimes and atrocities ⓘ large-scale use of combined arms operations ⓘ participation in the Holocaust in occupied Soviet territories ⓘ
notableCommander	Adolf Hitler ⓘ Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ⓘ Erich von Manstein ⓘ Ewald von Kleist ⓘ Fedor von Bock ⓘ Gerd von Rundstedt ⓘ Günther von Kluge ⓘ Heinz Guderian ⓘ Hermann Hoth ⓘ Walter Model ⓘ Wilhelm Keitel ⓘ
objective	conquest of Soviet territory ⓘ defeat of the Soviet Union ⓘ seizure of Soviet natural resources ⓘ
opposedBy	Red Army ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
partOf	Axis powers ⓘ
primaryComponent	Wehrmacht ⓘ surface form: Heer (German Army) Luftwaffe ⓘ Waffen-SS ⓘ Wehrmacht ⓘ
result	defeat by the Soviet Union ⓘ
startTime	1941-06-22 ⓘ
theater	Eastern Front ⓘ surface form: Eastern Front (European theatre of World War II)

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Romanian 3rd Army → associatedWith → Axis forces on the Eastern Front ⓘ

Romanian 4th Army → side → Axis forces on the Eastern Front ⓘ

this entity surface form: Axis (until August 1944)