Eastern Front of World War II

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front of World War II theater of war

The Eastern Front of World War II was the vast and brutal theater of conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (along with their allies) that became the largest and bloodiest front of the entire war.

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Label Occurrences
Eastern Front of World War II canonical 158
Eastern Front (World War II) 29
Great Patriotic War 26

Statements (78)

Predicate Object
instanceOf front of World War II ⓘ
theater of war ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Eastern Front NERFINISHED ⓘ
German-Soviet Front NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ostfront NERFINISHED ⓘ
belligerent Bulgarian forces on Allied side (after 1944) ⓘ
Croatia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Czechoslovak units in the Soviet Union ⓘ
Finland NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ
Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ
Polish Armed Forces in the East NERFINISHED ⓘ
Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ
Romanian forces on Allied side (after 1944) ⓘ
Slovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
characteristic bloodiest theater of World War II ⓘ
extreme brutality ⓘ
high civilian casualties ⓘ
largest land theater of World War II ⓘ
war of annihilation ⓘ
conflictBetween Allied powers NERFINISHED ⓘ
Axis powers NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nazi Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ
Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ
endDate 1945-05-09 ⓘ
estimatedCivilianDeaths tens of millions ⓘ
estimatedMilitaryDeaths over 10 million ⓘ
followedBy Soviet occupation of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ
beginning of the Cold War ⓘ
frontLineLength thousands of kilometers ⓘ
location Balkans NERFINISHED ⓘ
Baltic region NERFINISHED ⓘ
Central Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ
Eastern Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ
Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ
majorBattle Battle of Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ
Battle of Kharkov NERFINISHED ⓘ
Battle of Kiev (1941) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Battle of Kursk NERFINISHED ⓘ
Battle of Moscow NERFINISHED ⓘ
Battle of Smolensk (1941) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Battle of Stalingrad NERFINISHED ⓘ
Battle of the Dnieper NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive NERFINISHED ⓘ
Siege of Leningrad NERFINISHED ⓘ
majorOperation Case Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ
Operation Bagration NERFINISHED ⓘ
Operation Barbarossa NERFINISHED ⓘ
Operation Typhoon NERFINISHED ⓘ
Operation Uranus NERFINISHED ⓘ
Vistula–Oder Offensive NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf World War II ⓘ
precededBy Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact NERFINISHED ⓘ
Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryAxisCommander Adolf Hitler NERFINISHED ⓘ
Erich von Manstein NERFINISHED ⓘ
Fedor von Bock NERFINISHED ⓘ
Gerd von Rundstedt NERFINISHED ⓘ
Wilhelm Keitel NERFINISHED ⓘ
primarySovietCommander Aleksandr Vasilevsky NERFINISHED ⓘ
Georgy Zhukov NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ivan Konev NERFINISHED ⓘ
Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED ⓘ
Konstantin Rokossovsky NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedEvent Holocaust in the occupied Soviet territories NERFINISHED ⓘ
mass deportations ⓘ
partisan warfare ⓘ
sieges of major cities ⓘ
result Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ
decisive Allied victory ⓘ
defeat of Nazi Germany ⓘ
startDate 1941-06-22 ⓘ
startedBy Operation Barbarossa NERFINISHED ⓘ
strategicImportance absorbed majority of German ground forces ⓘ
decisive in weakening German Wehrmacht ⓘ
key to Allied victory in Europe ⓘ

Referenced by (250)

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“So It Was” (memoirs) → depicts → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
subject surface form: So It Was
this entity surface form: Soviet-German War
Maxim Purkayev → participantIn → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great Patriotic War
Maxim Purkayev → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Commander of the Volkhov Front → establishedDuring → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great Patriotic War
Commander of the Volkhov Front → associatedWith → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet–German War
German Operation Trappenjagd → partOf → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Dmitry Kozlov → associatedWith → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Eltigen → theaterOf → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Yenikale → theaterOfWar → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Northern Front of World War II → relatedTo → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Soviet 56th Army → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Commander of the Karelian Front → appliesToPeriod → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Western USSR → wasInvolvedIn → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Western USSR → wasInvolvedIn → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet–German War
Operation Suvorov (Smolensk offensive, 1943) → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
subject surface form: Operation Suvorov
Orsha offensives → partOf → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Vitebsk–Orsha offensive → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Orsha offensive (1944) → partOf → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eastern Front (World War II)
16th Army → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great Patriotic War
30th Army → activeDuring → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great Patriotic War
64th Army → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great Patriotic War
Tikhvin Defensive Operation → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
21st Army → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
19th Army → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Bobruysk offensive → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
29th Army → formedDuring → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great Patriotic War
Heinz Reinefarth → participatedIn → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Philip Zhmachenko → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Kaluga offensive operation → historicalEra → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: World War II on the Eastern Front
Konstantin Leselidze → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
5th Mechanized Corps → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Klin–Solnechnogorsk offensive operation → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Tula offensive operation → partOf → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eastern Front (World War II)
Katyusha → combatUse → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
"Katyusha" wartime song → notablePeriodOfPopularity → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
subject surface form: Katyusha
this entity surface form: Great Patriotic War
Defense of the Eastern Front → conflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Georg Lindemann → participantIn → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Soviet 2nd Guards Tank Army → activeDuring → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
subject surface form: 2nd Guards Tank Army
this entity surface form: Great Patriotic War
Battle of Halbe → partOf → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Belorussian strategic offensive operation → partOf → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Stalingrad Tractor Factory → associatedWith → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Papasha → associatedWithConflict → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Polikarpov I-15 → usedInTheater → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Road of Life across Lake Ladoga → historicalPeriod → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Retreat from the Eastern Front → partOf → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Finnish Karelian Army → theaterOfOperations → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Soviet 1st Guards Tank Army → theaterOfOperations → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet–German front
Soviet 16th Air Army → theater → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
Soviet 16th Air Army → areaOfOperations → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet–German front in Eastern Europe
Bryansk sector → partOf → Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eastern Front in World War II