ww2 Eastern Front

The Courland Pocket 1944-45

Courland Pocket The Courland Pocket was formed in late 1944 as Army Group North retreated from East in the face[…]

Stalingrad Firestorm As Paulus’s 6th Army crosses the Don river, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen’s Luftflotte 4 launches a devastating air[…]

The Storyline Before Paulus could strike towards Stalingrad, he had to clear the Bend of the Great Don River of[…]

Victory At Stalingrad 2 February, 1943: The Battle of Stalingrad is over. 4 minutes of assessment and statistics. Credit[…]

Fall Blau The last gasp of victory for the Axis in WW2, Fall Blau is a disaster for German Blitzkrieg[…]

The Battle of Kursk The tidal wave of the German advance had lost momentum when it broke against the outskirts[…]

First Interrogation of Field Marshal Paulus The pictures of the first interrogation of Field Marshal Paulus are famous. But few[…]

1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment The unknown story of the 1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, whose female gunners made an extraordinary land stand on[…]

Karl-Gerät Mortar “Karl-Gerät”, also known as Mörser Karl, was a World War II German self-propelled siege mortar designed and built[…]

Russian Winter Beat the Germans? Many people believe that the Russian Winter stopped the Germans outside Moscow. Historians no longer[…]