German-Soviet War

Eastern Front
Part of World War II
Clockwise from top left: Soviet Il-2 ground attack aircraft in Berlin sky; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, winter 1943–1944; Killings of Jews by German Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender; Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
Date 22 June 1941 (1941-06-22) – 9 May 1945 (1945-05-09) (3 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 3 days) Location Europe east of Germany: Central, Eastern and Northern Europe; in later stages Southeast Europe (Balkans), Germany and Austria Result Decisive Allied victory, end of World War II in Europe (concurrently with the Western Front), destruction of the Third Reich and the death of Adolf Hitler Soviet Union occupies Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet Communist governments in countries including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany. Establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Beginning of the Cold War and the creation of the Iron Curtain. The beginning of the Greek Civil War. Territorial changes Partition of Germany Borders of Poland changed.
Belligerents
Axis powers  Germany  Romania (until 1944)  Italy (until 1943)  Hungary Axis puppet states  Slovak Republic  Croatia Co-belligerents  Finland (until 1944)  Bulgaria (until 1944)  Francoist Spain (until 1943)	Allies  Soviet Union Poland Czechoslovakia (from 1943) Yugoslavia (from 1944) Tuva (until 1944) Former Axis powers or co-belligerents  Romania (from 1944) Bulgaria (from 1944)  Finland (from 1944) Aerial and naval only United States United Kingdom Free France (1943–45)
Commanders and leaders
Adolf Hitler (commander-in-chief) Walther von Brauchitsch Franz Halder Kurt Zeitzler Heinz Guderian Gerd von Rundstedt Ion Antonescu Benito Mussolini Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Emilio Esteban Infantes Miklós Horthy Ante Pavelic	Joseph Stalin (commander-in-chief) Georgy Zhukov Boris Shaposhnikov Aleksandr Vasilevsky Aleksei Antonov Konstantin Rokossovsky Josip Broz Tito Zygmunt Berling
Strength
1941 3,767,000 troops 1943 3,933,000 troops 1945 1,960,000 troops	1941 2,680,000 troops 1943 6,724,000 troops 1945 6,410,000 troops
Casualties and losses
See below	See below

Axis powers
 Germany
 Romania (until 1944)
 Italy (until 1943)
 Hungary

Allies
 Soviet Union
Poland
Czechoslovakia (from 1943)
Yugoslavia (from 1944)
Tuva (until 1944)

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