HI123 Lecture 22: Dec. 3 War of annihilation the Eastern Front in World War II
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War of annihilation: the eastern front in world war ii. Scale and significance: the eastern front extended from berlin to moscow and from the baltic, the eastern front in the second world war was the largest land war in. Between 1939 and 45, it mobilized 30 million men and women for its armed forces. The red army was destroyed and renewed at least twice during the war: the soviet armed forces lost between 9 and 12 million combatants. The higher figure exceeds the total war dead of all sides due in the. Soviet losses were ten to fifteen times greater than the combined british (383, 800) and american (416, 300) war dead: the number of soviet civilians killed was even higher: over 19 million. Many died by starvation or disease but the german army killed millions either directly or indirectly: germany"s commitment to the eastern front was almost as great.
