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106 episodes
Season 2
The Germans in the Stalingrad cauldron reject the Soviets' final offer of surrender. The Red Army responds by crushing the cauldron. Map 1: The end of the Kessel Source: Military History Now (https://militaryhistorynow.com/2021/01/15/battlefield-stalingrad-four-maps-that-tell-the-story-of-world-war-twos-pivotal-struggle/) The ultimatum to Stalingrad: https://www.stalingrad.net/russian-hq/the-russian-ultimatum/rusultimatum.html Images: 3-engine German transport plane lands at Pitomnik airfield. Red Army soldiers attack in the ruins of Stalingrad. Sources: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. William Craig, Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. Old Saybrook, CT, USA: Konecky & Konecky, 1973. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Sound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
52min | Published on January 29, 2024
For the Germans of the 6th Army, Christmas 1942 was a hungry Yule in the freezing Cauldron. Map 1: Operation Uranus, November and December 1942 Map 2: Operation Winter Storm: The German relief attempt Map 3: Operation Winter Storm stalled Failure: Luftwaffe supplies the trapped 6th Army in the Kessel Failure: Operation Winter Storm German soldiers in the Kessel/Cauldron Red Army soldier writes home, December 1942 By December, the Red Army soldiers' morale was very different from the Germans'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
44min | Published on December 18, 2023
Warfare usually slows down in winter. Not so in Russia in 1942. The Germans launch another huge attack to relieve the 6th Army in Stalingrad. But the Red Army has its own ideas. Map 1: The long, long German lines to Stalingrad Map 2: Operation Uranus Source: Awesome stories Map 3a: Operation Winter Storm Source: https://alchetron.com/cdn/operation-winter-storm-ee2a434c-cf0a-4ef4-a3c3-e87d2e84c08-resize-750.jpeg Map 3b: Operation Winter Storm fails Source: WWIIincolor.com Historical pictures A Panzer III on the steppe in southern Russia, December 1942 Source: Wikimedia Commons Soviet forces in southern Russia, winter 1942. Source: Wikimedia Commons Sources: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Sound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
44min | Published on December 4, 2023
As three Red Army Fronts move on the German flanks west and south of Stalingrad, two more attack the Rzhev-Vyazma salient west of Moscow. Is it a diversion, or is Mars the twin of Uranus? Map 1: The Rzhev-Vyazma salient Map 2: Operation Mars Historical images Workers from Moscow suburbs handing over new tanks to Soviet servicemen. Source: Commons:RIA Novosti (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti) Sources Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. London, UK: Icon Books, 2012. David Glantz, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1999. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Sound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
29min | Published on November 20, 2023
The Soviet high command's strategy to defeat the Germans at Stalingrad took the invaders by surprise. Map 1: The German flanks Map 2: Operation Uranus in action Red Army soldiers in winter camouflage charge across the steppe The T-34 in action in Uranus Northern and southern pincers meet Red Army commanders from the 5th Tank Army and the 4th Mechanized Corps meet on the steppe near Kalach, 23 November 1942. The end of the beginning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
46min | Published on November 7, 2023
The third installment describing the biggest single battle in history: the siege of Stalingrad. By November 1942, the casualties for attackers and defenders was unsustainable for both sides. The Soviet high command, Stavka, makes a new plan. Pavlov's House Map 1: The city of Stalingrad Map 2: The plan for Operation Uranus Sources Antony Beevor, The Second World War. Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: the Fateful Siege 1942–1943. . William Craig, Enemy at the Gates. Anthony Tucker Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
40min | Published on October 23, 2023
In the autumn of 1942, the German 6th Army with Romanian, Hungarian and Italian armies in support, ground into Stalingrad—a hell of their own making. Map: Stalingrad city layout Photos Red Army soldier prepare to defend Stalingrad suburb Stalingrad on fire after bombing, 2 October 1942 The Red October Factory's ruins became hiding places for Red Army defenders Loading a Katyusha rocket launcher Katyusha from military museum General Friedrich Paulus Second from left, Gen. Vasily Chuikov in his headquarters in Stalingrad, 1942. Sources Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. William Craig, Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. Old Saybrook, CT, USA: Konecky & Konecky, 1973. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Sound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
48min | Published on October 9, 2023
A conversation with Romeo Kokriatski and Anthony Bartaway of the Ukraine Without Hype podcast. We talked about the Second World War in Ukraine, and the current war in Ukraine. Ukraine Without Hype Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ukraine-without-hype/id1537219548Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8zY2E5ZGNlYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukraine-without-hype YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqAUk2oJ9jvb-QcoOoPaiIw Twitter: @HypeUkraine (https://twitter.com/HypeUkraine) PlayerFM: https://player.fm/series/ukraine-without-hype-3319360 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
1h07 | Published on September 24, 2023
National resistance to German and Soviet occupation played a significant role in the war on the Eastern Front. This episode takes a closer look at the large, organized and powerful resistance armies in Poland and Ukraine. Map: Ukrainian border shifts between 1939 and 1945 Source: Paul Robert Magosci and Geoffrey J. Matthews, cartographer: Ukraine: A Historical Atlas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Used with the gracious permission of the author. Photos "To Arms!" poster recruiting members to join the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Poster by Mieczysław Jurgielewicz and Edmunt Burke A unit portrait from the Polish Home Army. Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum UPA propaganda poster showing a UPA soldier standing on the banners of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The Cyrillic text is official greeting of the OUN/UPA: Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!. UPA soldiers in the forest, circa 1944. Source: Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
42min | Published on September 11, 2023
From Ukraine to Poland to Estonia, across the Eastern Front, partisans and guerrillas fought for the independence of their nations—from both nazi Germany and the communist USSR. And yes, I call communists and nazis "con artists," "fools" and "dupes."Get your free books! Leave a rating and/or a review on your podcatcher of choice. Send the link to it to contact@beyondbarbarossa.ca, (mailto:contact@beyondbarbarossa.ca,) and I will send you three e-books: Army of Worn Soles, Under the Nazi Heel and Walking Out of War. I will also enter your name in a draw for a signed paperback copy of The Eastern Front Trilogy, which includes all three books! Facebook: Beyond Barbarossa (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082862966326) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082862966326 Map: Operation Barbarossa, 22 June 1941 You can see the Baltic States and key cities, including Tallinn, Narva, RIga, and Vilnius. Nazi Germany's war flag Sources Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London: Little, Brown and Company, 2012. Robert Magosci, A History of Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Wikipedia:Polish resistance movement in World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_resistance_movement_in_World_War_II)Belarusian resistance during World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_resistance_during_World_War_II)Resistance in Lithuania during World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_in_Lithuania_during_World_War_II)German occupation of Latvia during World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Latvia_during_World_War_II)Estonian anti-German resistance movement 1941–1944 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_anti-German_resistance_movement_1941%E2%80%931944%20) Larysa Zariczniak, "The Ukrainian Trial of the Century: Bilas and Danylyshyn (https://www.wanderingtheedge.net/podcast/episode/4bd50314/the-ukrainian-trial-of-the-century-bilas-and-danylyshyn)," Wandering the Edge podcast, 15 August 2023. https://www.wanderingtheedge.net/podcast/episode/4bd50314/the-ukrainian-trial-of-the-century-bilas-and-danylyshyn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
34min | Published on August 28, 2023
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106 episodes
Season 2
The Germans in the Stalingrad cauldron reject the Soviets' final offer of surrender. The Red Army responds by crushing the cauldron. Map 1: The end of the Kessel Source: Military History Now (https://militaryhistorynow.com/2021/01/15/battlefield-stalingrad-four-maps-that-tell-the-story-of-world-war-twos-pivotal-struggle/) The ultimatum to Stalingrad: https://www.stalingrad.net/russian-hq/the-russian-ultimatum/rusultimatum.html Images: 3-engine German transport plane lands at Pitomnik airfield. Red Army soldiers attack in the ruins of Stalingrad. Sources: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. William Craig, Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. Old Saybrook, CT, USA: Konecky & Konecky, 1973. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Sound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
52min | Published on January 29, 2024
For the Germans of the 6th Army, Christmas 1942 was a hungry Yule in the freezing Cauldron. Map 1: Operation Uranus, November and December 1942 Map 2: Operation Winter Storm: The German relief attempt Map 3: Operation Winter Storm stalled Failure: Luftwaffe supplies the trapped 6th Army in the Kessel Failure: Operation Winter Storm German soldiers in the Kessel/Cauldron Red Army soldier writes home, December 1942 By December, the Red Army soldiers' morale was very different from the Germans'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
44min | Published on December 18, 2023
Warfare usually slows down in winter. Not so in Russia in 1942. The Germans launch another huge attack to relieve the 6th Army in Stalingrad. But the Red Army has its own ideas. Map 1: The long, long German lines to Stalingrad Map 2: Operation Uranus Source: Awesome stories Map 3a: Operation Winter Storm Source: https://alchetron.com/cdn/operation-winter-storm-ee2a434c-cf0a-4ef4-a3c3-e87d2e84c08-resize-750.jpeg Map 3b: Operation Winter Storm fails Source: WWIIincolor.com Historical pictures A Panzer III on the steppe in southern Russia, December 1942 Source: Wikimedia Commons Soviet forces in southern Russia, winter 1942. Source: Wikimedia Commons Sources: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Sound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
44min | Published on December 4, 2023
As three Red Army Fronts move on the German flanks west and south of Stalingrad, two more attack the Rzhev-Vyazma salient west of Moscow. Is it a diversion, or is Mars the twin of Uranus? Map 1: The Rzhev-Vyazma salient Map 2: Operation Mars Historical images Workers from Moscow suburbs handing over new tanks to Soviet servicemen. Source: Commons:RIA Novosti (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti) Sources Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. London, UK: Icon Books, 2012. David Glantz, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1999. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Sound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
29min | Published on November 20, 2023
The Soviet high command's strategy to defeat the Germans at Stalingrad took the invaders by surprise. Map 1: The German flanks Map 2: Operation Uranus in action Red Army soldiers in winter camouflage charge across the steppe The T-34 in action in Uranus Northern and southern pincers meet Red Army commanders from the 5th Tank Army and the 4th Mechanized Corps meet on the steppe near Kalach, 23 November 1942. The end of the beginning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
46min | Published on November 7, 2023
The third installment describing the biggest single battle in history: the siege of Stalingrad. By November 1942, the casualties for attackers and defenders was unsustainable for both sides. The Soviet high command, Stavka, makes a new plan. Pavlov's House Map 1: The city of Stalingrad Map 2: The plan for Operation Uranus Sources Antony Beevor, The Second World War. Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: the Fateful Siege 1942–1943. . William Craig, Enemy at the Gates. Anthony Tucker Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
40min | Published on October 23, 2023
In the autumn of 1942, the German 6th Army with Romanian, Hungarian and Italian armies in support, ground into Stalingrad—a hell of their own making. Map: Stalingrad city layout Photos Red Army soldier prepare to defend Stalingrad suburb Stalingrad on fire after bombing, 2 October 1942 The Red October Factory's ruins became hiding places for Red Army defenders Loading a Katyusha rocket launcher Katyusha from military museum General Friedrich Paulus Second from left, Gen. Vasily Chuikov in his headquarters in Stalingrad, 1942. Sources Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. William Craig, Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. Old Saybrook, CT, USA: Konecky & Konecky, 1973. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Sound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
48min | Published on October 9, 2023
A conversation with Romeo Kokriatski and Anthony Bartaway of the Ukraine Without Hype podcast. We talked about the Second World War in Ukraine, and the current war in Ukraine. Ukraine Without Hype Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ukraine-without-hype/id1537219548Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8zY2E5ZGNlYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukraine-without-hype YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqAUk2oJ9jvb-QcoOoPaiIw Twitter: @HypeUkraine (https://twitter.com/HypeUkraine) PlayerFM: https://player.fm/series/ukraine-without-hype-3319360 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
1h07 | Published on September 24, 2023
National resistance to German and Soviet occupation played a significant role in the war on the Eastern Front. This episode takes a closer look at the large, organized and powerful resistance armies in Poland and Ukraine. Map: Ukrainian border shifts between 1939 and 1945 Source: Paul Robert Magosci and Geoffrey J. Matthews, cartographer: Ukraine: A Historical Atlas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Used with the gracious permission of the author. Photos "To Arms!" poster recruiting members to join the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Poster by Mieczysław Jurgielewicz and Edmunt Burke A unit portrait from the Polish Home Army. Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum UPA propaganda poster showing a UPA soldier standing on the banners of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The Cyrillic text is official greeting of the OUN/UPA: Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!. UPA soldiers in the forest, circa 1944. Source: Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
42min | Published on September 11, 2023
From Ukraine to Poland to Estonia, across the Eastern Front, partisans and guerrillas fought for the independence of their nations—from both nazi Germany and the communist USSR. And yes, I call communists and nazis "con artists," "fools" and "dupes."Get your free books! Leave a rating and/or a review on your podcatcher of choice. Send the link to it to contact@beyondbarbarossa.ca, (mailto:contact@beyondbarbarossa.ca,) and I will send you three e-books: Army of Worn Soles, Under the Nazi Heel and Walking Out of War. I will also enter your name in a draw for a signed paperback copy of The Eastern Front Trilogy, which includes all three books! Facebook: Beyond Barbarossa (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082862966326) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082862966326 Map: Operation Barbarossa, 22 June 1941 You can see the Baltic States and key cities, including Tallinn, Narva, RIga, and Vilnius. Nazi Germany's war flag Sources Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London: Little, Brown and Company, 2012. Robert Magosci, A History of Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Wikipedia:Polish resistance movement in World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_resistance_movement_in_World_War_II)Belarusian resistance during World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_resistance_during_World_War_II)Resistance in Lithuania during World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_in_Lithuania_during_World_War_II)German occupation of Latvia during World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Latvia_during_World_War_II)Estonian anti-German resistance movement 1941–1944 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_anti-German_resistance_movement_1941%E2%80%931944%20) Larysa Zariczniak, "The Ukrainian Trial of the Century: Bilas and Danylyshyn (https://www.wanderingtheedge.net/podcast/episode/4bd50314/the-ukrainian-trial-of-the-century-bilas-and-danylyshyn)," Wandering the Edge podcast, 15 August 2023. https://www.wanderingtheedge.net/podcast/episode/4bd50314/the-ukrainian-trial-of-the-century-bilas-and-danylyshyn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
34min | Published on August 28, 2023