Planning Barbarossa
Dr Duncan Anderson explains how overconfidence, a plan that relied on 'hoping for the best', and European topography conspired to fatally undermine the German invasion of the Soviet Union
German troops spend their first winter in Russia
German newsreel footage shows German troops coping rather well with the Russian winter. In fact it caused the Germans terribl...
Liberation of Stalingrad
The Germans are expelled from Stalingrad after 163 days of siege. Hundreds of thousands lie dead in and around the city...
Targetting Moscow
Dr Simon Trew argues that the failure of Germany to focus its force against one decisive target - Moscow - was why Operation ...
German troops take Minsk
German troops receive a mixed reception upon entering Minsk, being welcomed by some locals as liberators from Soviet oppressi...
Latest news from the Eastern Front
Russian men, women and children are all involved in creating defences against the German army...
The Red Army fights back
The tide of war with the Red Army has turned against Nazi Germany...
German brutality
Newsreels of Nazi warfare on the Eastern Front, intended as German propaganda, instead reveals the brutality of the German wa...
Operation Barbarossa
The Germans advance into the Soviet Union, creating death and destruction...
1941: year of defeat
Andrew Roberts argues that the Allies came perilously close to defeat in 1941, but were saved by Hitler's decision to invade ...
Soviet Resistance
Prof Richard Overy looks at the remarkable ability of the Soviet Union to absorb punishment in 1941 and still fight on, and t...
Russian offensive over a thousand mile front
The Soviet Union is fighting a battle against the German invader from Leningrad across to Stalingrad...
Planning Barbarossa
Dr Duncan Anderson explains how overconfidence, a plan that relied on 'hoping for the best', and European topography conspire...
River Don flows red
As the Germans advance towards Stalingrad past the River Don, they are met by the Soviets and the early stages of the battle ...
