Click on the links for a discussion of the war on the Eastern Front. This was the most important part of WW2, yet is probably the least familiar to Americans.
Here is a site with many useful maps that can be studied in connection with the discussion, such as this one.
The introduction covers some of the background politics, a quick overview of other theaters, and definition of some of the terminology (57″).
This one covers the eastern front as it developed during 1941 (89″).
[...] This discussion concludes the three-part series on the German eastern front in WW2. See the earlier post for the introduction and 1941, and links to [...]