Axis forces on the Eastern Front

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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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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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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)