{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The curtain falls on Germany in 1943: Episode 63","description":"Episode 63: at the end of 1943, the situation for nazi Germany and communist USSR on the Eastern Front is radically different from the end of 1942. Plus, the Cairo and Tehran Conferences promise to reshape the geo-political world.\n\nMap 1: The Red Army advances to, and past the Wotan Line\n\nMap 2: The front lines, 15 November 1943\n\n\n\nMap 3: The front lines, 31 December 1943\n\n\n\nHistorical photos: The German Panther (Panzer V) vs. the Soviet T-34-85\n\n\n\nSoviet photo loading artillery at Nikopol bridgehead\n\nSources:\n\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.\n\nPrit Buttar, Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.\n\nEvan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.\n\n Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762377/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}