How horrible was the Eastern Front of World War II?

The Second World War was a world war led by Germany, the initiator of the First World War, and was once again provoked by uniting Japan and Italy as an alliance. The scope of this war, the number of countries involved and the long duration can all be called a terrible battle. World War II, like World War I, was divided into two major battlefields, East and West, with Germany as the dividing line. Generally speaking, the eastern front battlefield is still the same.

Confronted countries are different, so the official start time of the two fronts is different. The western front battlefield began with the war in 1939, while the eastern front battlefield was torn up by Germany until June 22, 94 1. The Soviet-German Non-aggression Treaty officially began when the former Soviet Union was attacked on a large scale, and the eastern front was also a very eye-catching front, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. Length 1800 km. Although Britain and the United States did not fight side by side like the western front, relying on the super power of the former Soviet Union as a superpower to fight against Germany, the eastern front battlefield was equally horrible and extremely cruel.

First of all, we can feel how terrible the eastern front battlefield is from a famous movie. In the famous film Schindler's List, a Jew traveling with Schindler was caught by German soldiers and sent to a concentration camp. Schindler used his connections to try to get the officers to let the Jews out, but as expected, he was rejected by the German soldiers. Then Schindler's behavior instantly made the German soldiers become unintelligent, only to see Schindler take out paper notes and write down the German soldiers'. Later, it was said that the German soldier would be sent to the Eastern Front at the end of the month. Such remarks made German soldiers tremble with fear, and also reflected from the side that the cruelty of the eastern front battlefield was not tolerated by ordinary people.

And several battles that happened among them can make people realize how terrible the eastern front battlefield is. For example, in the Battle of Minsk, Germany destroyed most of the Soviet troops on the Western Front in less than 20 days, and captured 500,000 people. Then the Soviet Union launched a counterattack, which also defeated the Germans in less than 20 days and successfully eliminated all 300,000 officers and men of the German Central Army Group. The battle of Kiev, which also happened in the history books of the Eastern Front, was even more cruel. This is the largest defensive war in the history of human war. In this battle, the Soviet Union and Germany * * * invested 6.5438+0.35 million troops, and the final result of this battle was that most of the 5 th, 265.438+0, 37, and 26 th regiments of the Soviet Union and some of the 40 th and 38 th armies were wiped out.