Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East

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Operation Barbarossa Leningrad Demyansk Lvov Moscow Mozhaisk Kalinin Rzhev Vyazma Tula Orel Kursk Bryansk Minsk Vitebsk Smolensk Orsha Kharkov Rostov Lokhvitsa Kiev Sevastopol Uman Odessa Bialystok BrestLitovsk Warsaw Berlin Vienna e b u n a D Rumania Yugoslavia Greater German Reich Pripet Marshes Slovakia Riga Kaunas Vilnius Novgorod Mogilev Gomel Romny Kremenchug Dnepropetrovsk Vinnitsa Soviet Union Latvia Poland Lithuania Estonia Sweden Finland Crimea Baltic Sea Black Sea C a s p ia n S e a a l u t s i V g u B t e p i r P r e d O r e t s e i n D s t e n o D n o D r e p e i n D anseD a g l o V a k O n a b u K Army Group North Army Group Center Army Group South 100 200 miles 0 0 100 200 300 km a n i v D Sea of Azov Stalingrad a m u K Barbarossa Objective Proposed Barbarossa Advances 22 June 1941 Border Rybinsk Reservoir Lake Ladoga Lake Peipus Budapest Ploesti Hungary Lake Ilmen Gorky Operation Blau Leningrad Stalingrad Sevastopol Moscow Tula Orel Smolensk Elista Astrakhan Grozny Voroshilovsk Maikop Krasnodar Kerch Millerovo Perekop Dnepropetrovsk Mariupol Zaporozhye Stalino Ordzhonikidze Novorossiysk Crimea Tuapse Sukhumi Kiev Poltava Kharkov Belgorod Kursk Voronezh Izyum Bryansk Vitebsk Gorky Demyansk Lisichansk Black Sea D onets Don Volga K u b a n Manych m u a K C h i r Dnieper Rzhev to Baku Rostov Kalach Rybinsk Reservoir Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Kletskaya C a s p i a n S e a Sea of Azov Kuibyshev Oka Lake Ladoga Lake Ilmen Gulf of Finland 100 200 miles 0 0 100 200 km Caucasus Mountains Army Group North Army Group Center Army Group South 10 May 1942 Front German Army Group Boundaries Proposed Operation Blau Advances Oil Fields Barvenkovo Sukhinichi Stalingrad, September 1942–February 1943 Stalingrad Elista Kotelnikovo Verkhne-Chirsky Astrakhan Grozny Voroshilovsk Maikop Krasnodar Kerch Mariupol Stalino Novorossiysk Tuapse Sukhumi Black Sea s t e n o D n o D a g l o V n a b u K h c y n a M a m u K r i h C a v o k h s y M to Baku Rostov Kletskaya C a s p i a n S e a Sea of Azov 100 miles 0 0 100 km Caucasus Mountains Soviet Offensives November 1942 February 1943 Oil Fields s u i M Kalach Taganrog Ordzhonikidze Kursk and Ukraine, summer/fall 1943 Leningrad Novgorod Riga Vilnius Berezino Smolensk Vitebsk Orsha Minsk Mogilev Bryansk Orel Kiev Lvov Tarnopol Proskurov Vinnitsa Uman Kirovograd Stalino Novorossiysk Sevastopol Izyum Kharkov Belgorod Kursk Ponyri Prokhorovka Poltava Zaporozhye Ukraine Taganrog Tiraspol Odessa Carpathian Mountains Chelm Kovel Brest-Litovsk Pripet Marshes Zhitomir Fastov Kanev Katyn Moscow a g l o V 100 200 miles 0 0 100 200 km Black Sea Gulf of Finland r e p e i n D D n i e p e r M i u s Sea of Azov Crimea Donets jm Se l e s P Don n o D B u g et ip r P Dniester Prut Danube D e s n a B e r e z i n a Rybinsk Reservoir Lake Ladoga Lake Peipus Soviet Union Finland Rzhev Bobruisk March 1943 Front Gomel Army Group North Army Group Center Army Group South German Army Group Boundaries Lake Ilmen Korsun Cherkassy a k O Destruction of Army Group Center, summer 1944 Leningrad Lvov Pinsk Kovel Moscow Kalinin Rzhev Vyazma Tula Orel Kursk Bryansk Minsk Vitebsk Smolensk Orsha Kharkov Rostov Kiev Sevastopol Uman Odessa Bialystok BrestLitovsk Warsaw Berlin Vienna Budapest Ploesti Prague e b u n a D Austria Czechoslovakia Rumania Yugoslavia Germany Riga Kaunas Vilnius Novgorod Mogilev Gomel Dnepropetrovsk Vinnitsa Soviet Union Latvia Poland East Prussia Lithuania Estonia Sweden Finland Crimea Baltic Sea Black Sea C a s p ia n S e a a l u t s i V g u B r e d O r e t s e i n D t u r P s t e n o D n o D r e p e i n D a g l o V a k O n a b u K Army Group North 100 200 miles...