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Eastern front

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. This opened the “eastern front,” or the German-Soviet theater of war. Hitler and the German military planned the campaign against the Soviet Union as a “war of annihilation” (Vernichtungskrieg). Explore more content related to the eastern front during the Holocaust and World War II. 

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Column of Soviet prisoners of war from the Ukrainian front. [LCID: 73422]
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Column of Soviet prisoners of war
Media Essay
Einsatzgruppen (Abridged Article) - Photographs
Einsatzgruppen massacres in eastern Europe [LCID: eur73960]
Map
Einsatzgruppen massacres in eastern Europe
Media Essay
Einsatzgruppen - Photographs
German soldiers in the Soviet Union during a December 1943 Soviet offensive on the eastern front. [LCID: 09579]
Timeline Event
German Defeat at Stalingrad
Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941-1942 [LCID: eeu86710]
Timeline Event
German Forces Launch Offensive
German soldiers in the Soviet Union during a December 1943 Soviet offensive on the eastern front. [LCID: 09579]
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German soldiers in the Soviet Union
German troops attack Soviet lines. Soviet Union, 1943-1944. [LCID: 09604]
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German troops in the Soviet Union
German vehicles loaded on trains headed toward the eastern front to reinforce German forces during the invasion of the Soviet Union ... [LCID: 15584]
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German vehicles headed to the eastern front
Media Essay
Invasion of the Soviet Union, June 1941 - Photograph
Jews at the killing site outside of Kamenets-Podolsk.
Article
Mass Shootings of Jews during the Holocaust
German infantry during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. [LCID: 15582]
Article
Nazi Imperialism: An Overview
Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941-1942 [LCID: eeu86710]
Timeline Event
Operation Barbarossa
Photograph taken by George Kadish: a member of the Kovno ghetto underground hides supplies in a well used as the entrance to a hiding ... [LCID: 81109]
Article
Resistance in the Smaller Ghettos of Eastern Europe
Article
Resistance in the Smaller Ghettos of Eastern Europe: Glossary
Soviet military advance in Vitebsk [LCID: dfm0407r]
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Soviet military advance in Vitebsk

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