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  Eastern Front (World War II) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Eastern Front of World War II was the theatre of war covering the conflict in central and eastern European regions from June 1941 to May 1945.
The Eastern Front was by far the largest and bloodiest theatre of World War II, and generally accepted as the most costly conflict in human history at anywhere from 25-30 million dead as a result.
The Eastern front resulted in such staggering losses and disregard for human life almost entirely as a consequence of the ideological premise for the war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Front_(WWII)   (9563 words)

  
 TYPHUS FEVER ON THE EASTERN FRONT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But on the Eastern Front one disease returned in all its medieval ferocity and wreaked havoc on the military plans of the Central Powers.
Typhus quickly established itself along the entire Eastern Front, but was kept from reaching epidemic proportions in either the Austrian or German lines by the energetic delousing of the troops.
Petrograd, the Rumanian front and the Volga region.
scarab.msu.montana.edu /historybug/WWI/TEF.htm   (2678 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Eastern Front   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eastern Front, series of campaigns fought in Eastern Europe in World Wars I and II.
On the eastern front, in accordance with the plans of the Allies, the Russians assumed the offensive at the very beginning of the war.
All the belligerents in World War I planned to take the offensive at the outset, using the vastly improved railway systems of Europe to convey their...
uk.encarta.msn.com /Eastern_Front.html   (139 words)

  
 SudanTribune article : Sudan’s Eastern Front rebels launch first offensive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A coalition of eastern Sudan’s two main dissident factions — the Beja Congress and the Free Lions — and assorted sympathizers, the front was born in February of rising resentment over perceived marginalization of the east.
The main component of the Eastern Front is the Beja Congress which first took up arms against Khartoum in 1994 and was followed five years later by the Free Lions.
A statement signed by the Joint Eastern Forces — which includes JEM and the Eastern Front — claimed that 17 government troops, including a senior officer, were captured by their men in the operation that began on Sunday.
www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=10305   (803 words)

  
 The American Thinker
It should be clear to the mullahs that the initiative on their Western Front has decisively shifted in favor of the Coalition.
By turning east through Baluchistan and dangling the economic and energy carrots to the eastern democratic anchor in the region, India, and our nominal ally in the War of Terror, Pakistan, the mullahs hope to keep their regime intact, while suppressing the nascent democratic movement within their borders.
Its Western Front effort has gone nowhere and is under increasing pressure from the military forces of the US and the Coalition in the Persian Gulf and Iraq.
www.americanthinker.com /articles.php?article_id=4415   (2163 words)

  
 Eastern Front
The Eastern Front was the vast theatre of the First World War that took place between Russia, Austria-Hungary and Germany.
I saw a great deal of that long-drawn out front and of the men who, ill-armed, ill-supplied, were holding it against an enemy who, even in his anxiety to fight was no greater than the Russian's, was infinitely better equipped.
In the very field of the artillery, peasants were calmly ploughing with oxen, and in front of the roaring guns a boy in white linen drove cattle over the hill toward the pasture along the river.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWeastern.htm   (1074 words)

  
 WWI Eastern Front Foto- Nachlass eines Soldaten - a photoset on Flickr
WWI Eastern Front Foto- Nachlass eines Soldaten - a photoset on Flickr
some background information from Cambridge Catalogue, one of the few books describing: War Land on the Eastern Front is a study of a hidden legacy of World War I: the experience of German soldiers on the Eastern front and the long-term effects of their encounter with Eastern Europe.
After Germany’s defeat, the Eastern front’s ‘lessons’ were taken up by the Nazis, radicalized, and enacted when German armies returned to the East in World War II.
www.flickr.com /photos/65817306@N00/sets/486575   (218 words)

  
 Air Power:Air Power on the Eastern Front in World War II
Air Power:Air Power on the Eastern Front in World War II The British Hawker Hurricane, one of the most important aircraft designs in military aviation history, was one of the planes sent to Russia to help in their fight against the German invaders.
Air Power on the Eastern Front in World War II The war fought between Germany and the Soviet Union became the most dramatic and costly battlefront of World War II.
Nazis conquered Poland and Russia occupied the eastern part of the country as part of a secret agreement with the Nazis to partition Eastern Europe between them.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/Russia/AP21.htm   (1574 words)

  
 Omega Games and Paper Wars | Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eastern Front Solitaire, our first 3000 Line re-release, has been completely revamped with new artwork and all new components.
The Soviet Army is represented by fronts, shock armies, tank armies, garrisons and manpower and tank pools.
After the German turn, establish the Soviet front line, place a Soviet front in each district and allocate strength points from the manpower pool.
www.omegagames.com /omega/do/military/product/omegagames/AutoForward?forward=EasternFront.pagedef   (448 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Sudan eastern rebels massed on Eritrea border: media
Dignah, who also serves as deputy governor of Kassala state in eastern Sudan, said the rebels were massed on the Eritrean side of the border with Kassala and plotting to blow up vital installations.
Like rebels in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur, the ethnic minority Eastern Front charge their region has been neglected by the Arab-dominated regime in Khartoum.
The Beja Congress and their colleagues in the Eastern Front, the Free Lions, are both descendents of Arab immigrants to Sudan: the Beja centuries ago and Rashaidas in the 19th century.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MHII-6CF5JX?OpenDocument   (291 words)

  
 The Daily Star - Politics - Eastern Sudan rebels' unity unsure as peace talks loom
Speaking to reporters during a visit to Asmara to cement a rapprochement between Eritrea and Sudan after years of strained ties, Akol said Khartoum was unsure the Eastern Front was able to speak as one.
The front was founded by the Beja Congress and the Free Lions earlier this year and claimed to have launched its first combined offensive against Sudanese government positions in Red Sea state in June.
The hostilities also significantly heightened tensions between Sudan and Eritrea, where the Eastern Front keeps offices, and prompted an urgent UN mediation mission to cool rising antagonism between Asmara and Khartoum.
www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=20592   (579 words)

  
 Eastern Front (World War I) - Wikimedia Commons
A German trench in the swamp area near the Mazuric Lakes on the Eastern Front.
The picture shows German infantry on the March in 1914 on the Eastern Front.
The last corps to leave Warsaw and one of the first in action on the southwestern front in the summer of 1916.
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_I)   (255 words)

  
 SudanTribune article : Eastern Sudan: Rebel Attack on Civilians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
SOAT calls on the Eastern Front to immediately release the kidnapped men and to give assurances that the men will not be subjected to torture or ill-treatment.
SOAT condemns the action of the rebel groups particularly the involvement of JEM who are party to peace negotiations in the Darfur region and is signatory to the N’Djamena April 2004 Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement and calls on all parties to exercise restraint and refrain from extending the conflict in Darfur to the East.
SOAT urges all parties in the Eastern Front to pursue a constructive dialogue with the government in order to reach a political settlement.
www.sudantribune.com /article_impr.php3?id_article=9793   (394 words)

  
 Eastern Front III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After combating sciatica, which removed him from the front lines in the early part of 1942, Engel returned to the Eastern Front in 1943 as a gun commander in the newly formed Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 259.
The horror and confusion of fighting in the streets of Stalingrad are brought to life by his descriptions of the others in his unit: their differing manners and techniques fore dealing with the squalor and death.
The division enjoyed a high reputation for its combat capability, and was always at the focal points of the fighting on the Eastern Front in the last year of the war.
www.aberdeenbookstore.com /eastern_front_iii.htm   (16220 words)

  
 "AXIS & LEGION MILITARIA" - Axis & Legion Militaria
The so-called Italian FRONTE-RUSSO honor badge was awarded in March 1943 to all those troops that served on the Eastern Front from 22 June 1941 to 5 June 1943.
On the reverse of the badge was the name and address of the manufacturing company "F. BRONZETTI 25, MILANO" and the manufacturing pattern number "MODELLO DEPOSITATO NO. 38." The badge was attached to the left pocket of the uniform via a pin.
Troops of the Italian Expeditionary Forces in Russia were awarded with a fl enameled cross for their participation on the Russian Front.
axis101.bizland.com /ItalianAwards1.htm   (449 words)

  
 Maps WWII Eastern Front 1941
The German forces had effective superiority at the center of the front.
Soviet forces held a numerical advantage on the northern and southern flanks.
An operational pause ensued at the center of the front while armored forces from Army Group Center struck south to link up with forces striking northward from Army Group South.
www.onwar.com /maps/wwii/eastfront1   (346 words)

  
 The Eastern Front — 1914 - 1917
The Eastern Front of that great war had a profound impact on the remainder of the 20th century, even though the Western Front with its British, French and American combatants achieved somewhat greater fame.
By May of 1915, the Germans took over command of the Eastern Front and used many of their units to support the increasingly fragmented Austrian formations.
Many of these troops were eventually transferred to the Western Front which was still raging in 1918, but some of them were virtually useless as soldiers.
www.richthofen.com /ww1sum2   (2114 words)

  
 Eastern Front Gallery: a co-operative gallery in Toronto, Canada
Eastern Front Gallery is an exhibition site for visual arts and a resource centre for artists and art enthusiasts.
Eastern Front Gallery is located at 750A Queen St. E.
Situated in the heart of Toronto's latest gallery district at Queen and Broadview, Eastern Front offers members and the public the opportunity to enjoy the strengths of this vibrant and growing area.
www.easternfrontgallery.com   (163 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Eastern Front Photos: Books: John Erickson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One must end up thinking that a campaing as massive as the eastern front would show more fotographic evidence from the russian side than the so often seen images of the eastern front aficionado.
Many people still don't realize the brutality of the Eastern Front, for them this book is the reminder of the sacrifice of the Soviet people to defeat the hated Germans who invaded their country.
Erickson's approach - because, even more than a war fought, the Eastern Front (that, it's now sensible to remind, it was the 80% of the entire WWII in Europe) was a war endured, by civilian and combatant alike.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1842222600?v=glance   (1288 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain Eastern Front : Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The eastern front of the Rockies is an isolated, sparsely populated section of Montana, but it is no less beautiful than the peaks and valleys to the west.
When fossilized dinosaur eggs turned up along the Rocky Mountain Eastern Front -- the shoreline of a shallow sea 65 million years ago -- paleontologists learned that the beasts had migrated to this area to lay their eggs.
There are two towns with distinctive personalities on the front: Choteau and Augusta.
www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=2158&catID=2158010001   (244 words)

  
 Avalanche Press
Eastern Front is a game based on the opening year of this intense struggle, with 112 separate scenarios, or game situations, based on the actual battles waged in the Soviet Union during 1941 and 1942.
In terms of wargame play value, Eastern Front is packed with exciting fun.
The eight mapboards represent typical terrain found in the Soviet Union, and are placed together in may possible combinations to form the playing surface.
www.avalanchepress.com /gameEasternFront.php   (256 words)

  
 Eastern Or western Front? - SZO Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although I would have (based upon my prior wargaming history - meaning the boardgaming I did growing up) expected it to be Eastern Front -at the moment it has been Western Front (more specifically) the Mediterranean front in particular - or amphibious landings/paradrop assaults.
I enjoy Western Front action, and I currently have a Bulge campaign going that makes me grin from ear to ear, but overall I like the East Front better.
Eastern front for me. And, I will always command the Red Army.
www.strategyzoneonline.com /forums/showthread.php?p=478827#post478827   (858 words)

  
 BBC - History - The Soviet-German War 1941 - 1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His hatred of Soviet Communism and his crude ideas of economic imperialism, expressed in the pursuit of Lebensraum ('living-space'), made the Soviet Union a natural area for Hitler's warlike ambitions.
After the outbreak of war in 1939 came the added fear of Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe, while Germany was fighting the British Empire and France in the west.
All of these factors contributed to the decision taken by Hitler in July 1940, after the German defeat of France, to plan for an all-out assault on the Soviet Union.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/wwtwo/soviet_german_war_01.shtml   (404 words)

  
 WWI Eastern Front Foto- Nachlass eines Soldaten (follow the link)
Quite a contrast to the photos my mother has of my great-uncle on the Western Front, where it seems there is nothing but dirt and trenches, everything else having been burned or blown up.
Yet "Nazi ends evolved in part from [Ober Ost's] means, its categories of perception and practice," while "the line of continuity between the military utopia and Nazi plans can be traced in the way in which Ober Ost's practices and assumptions were radicalized and then put into action in renewed war in the East" (p.
I have a number of photos from the Western Front taken by great uncles during WWI and a number of pictures of Von Luckner and the crew of the Seeadler.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1528741/posts   (869 words)

  
 A German Soldier's Memory, The Eastern Front, Operation Barbarosa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The following war biography was submitted by a gentleman by the name of Joscha, a veteran of the eastern front and the Wehrmacht in WWII.
After training, and I mean training that was peacetime type, what with cross training as driver, loader, gunner and in first and second echelon maintenance, a bunch of us were sent to the Eastern Front as replacements for combat losses.
Neuruppin was an Armor replacement unit for the Eastern Front, we left there in early May 1943 and went to the Amiens area in northern France, where we received the new battle tanks, the Sturmpanzers.
home.att.net /~w.tomtschik/WW2OBindex.html   (6743 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Eastern Front: Barbarossa, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin (Campaigns of World War II) (The Campaigns of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The illustrated history of Germany's Eastern European campaign documents a four-year struggle of epic proportions, beginning with Operation Barbarossa-Germany's surprise attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941-and ending with the fall of Berlin in 1945.
A year-by-year history, along with archival photography and color maps and drawings, dissect SS tactics along the 2,000-mile front, while illustrating the strategies and comparing German weaponry and equipment with that of the Red Army.
Operation Barbarossa, the largest military offensive in history, launched a struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front that was to last nearly four years.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/076030923X?v=glance   (778 words)

  
 Eastern Front - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
80% of the cream of Germany were killed on the Eastern Front.
How can in one sentence, all of the SS be destroyed,and in the second sentence 80% be killed when all 100% of the SS were not involved in the fighting on the eastern front.
Germany's forces were scattered throughout Europe and Africa and only some were assigned to the eastern front.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=146180   (1232 words)

  
 The Eastern Front Index
The conflict on the Eastern Front during WWII saw some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the war.
The purpose of this website therefore, is to provide an unbiased account, in some detail, of the conflict on the Eastern Front between June 1941 and April 1945.
It is also to provide a historical database of information, on this otherwise poorly publicised conflict.
www.theeasternfront.co.uk   (208 words)

  
 Armor: All Quiet on the Eastern Front: Israel's National Security Doctrine After the Fall of Saddam
All Quiet on the Eastern Front: Israel's National Security Doctrine After the Fall of Saddam by Gal Luft, Analysis Paper, Number 2, The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, online at www.brookings.edu, or write to 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20036
The Saban Center of the Brookings Institute produces a series of analysis papers on the Middle East, competing for the attention of policymakers and legislators with other think-tanks such as RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, all located in Washington DC.
The paper contains tables that assess the balance of forces between Israel and its eastern neighbors, and goes into the quantitative and qualitative factors between those forces.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAB/is_6_113/ai_n8693897   (492 words)

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