Episode 3: The Face-Off

Beyond Barbarossa, the first English-language podcast in the world to focus on the Eastern Front of World War II, takes a close look at the opposing forces facing off across the border on June 22, 1941. 

Music by Nicolas Bury. 

Links

Beyond Barbarossa: the website for more maps and information. 

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The Eastern Front Trilogy: the true story of a Canadian drafted into the Soviet Red Army in 1941—just in time for Operation Barbarossa. 

Maps: 

The initial OKH plan for Operation Barbarossa

 

German advances to August 1941

 

Maps sources: World War II Database, United States Military Academy