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Afanasy Beloborodov
Afanasy Pavlantyevich Beloborodov (Афанасий Павлантьевич Белобородов; 31 January 1903 – 1 September 1990) was a military commander of the Soviet Army during the Second World War, twice Hero of the Soviet Union and recipient of several other awards.
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Army Group Centre
Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte) was the name of two distinct German strategic army groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.
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Battle of Smolensk (1943)
The second Battle of Smolensk (7 August–2 October 1943) was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as part of the Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1943.
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia.
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Battles of Rzhev
The Battles of Rzhev (Ржевская битва) were a series of Soviet operations in World War II between January 8, 1942 and March 31, 1943.
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Board game
A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.
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Citadel
A citadel is the core fortified area of a town or city.
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Claus Bundgård Christensen
Claus Bundgård Christensen (born 1968 in Holstebro) is a Danish historian and associate professor at Roskilde University known for his books related to collaboration and crime in Denmark during and following World War II.
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David Stahel
David Stahel (born 1975, Wellington, New Zealand) is a historian, author and professor of history at the University of New South Wales.
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Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945.
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Free Corps Denmark
Free Corps Denmark (Danish: Frikorps Danmark) was a Danish volunteer free corps created by the Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP) in cooperation with Nazi Germany, to fight the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
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German Army (Wehrmacht)
The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular German Armed Forces, from 1935 until it was demobilized and later dissolved in August 1946.
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Glossary of German military terms
This is a list of words, terms, concepts, and slogans that have been or are used by the German military.
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Kalinin Front
The Kalinin Front was a major formation of the Red Army active in the Eastern Front of World War II.
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Kholm Pocket
The Kholm Pocket (Kessel von Cholm; Холмский котёл) was the name given for the encirclement of German troops by the Red Army around Kholm south of Leningrad, during World War II on the Eastern Front, from 23 January 1942 until 5 May 1942.
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Kliment Voroshilov tank
The Kliment Voroshilov (KV) tanks were a series of Soviet heavy tanks named after the Soviet defence commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov and used by the Red Army during World War II.
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Kurt von der Chevallerie
Kurt von der Chevallerie (23 December 1891 – missing as of 18 April 1945) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the German 1st Army.
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Lake Peipus
Lake Peipus (Peipsi-Pihkva järv; Псковско-Чудское озеро (Pskovsko-Chudskoe ozero), Peipussee), the largest transboundary lake in Europe, lies on the border between Estonia and Russia.
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Long Range Aviation
Long Range Aviation (r, abbr. to AДД, or ADD) is the branch of the Soviet Air Forces and Russian Air Force tasked with long-range bombardment of strategic targets with nuclear weapons.
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Lovat River
The Lovat (Ловаць Lovać,; река́ Ло́вать) is a river in Vitebsk Oblast of Belarus, Usvyatsky, Velikoluksky, and Loknyansky Districts, as well as of the city of Velikiye Luki, of Pskov Oblast and Kholmsky, Poddorsky, Starorussky, and Parfinsky Districts of Novgorod Oblast in Russia.
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Maksim Purkayev
Maksim Alexeyevich Purkayev (Максим Алексеевич Пуркаев; August 14 (26), 1894, in the village of Nalitovo, Russian Empire – January 1, 1953, Moscow) was a Soviet military leader, reaching service rank of Army General.
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Military simulation
Military simulations, also known informally as war games, are simulations in which theories of warfare can be tested and refined without the need for actual hostilities.
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Novosokolniki
Novosokolniki (Новосоко́льники) is a town and the administrative center of Novosokolnichesky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the Maly Udray River at the junction of the St. Petersburg–Kiev and Moscow–Riga railways, southeast of Pskov, the administrative center of the oblast.
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Oberkommando des Heeres
The Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) was the High Command of the German Army during the Era of Nazi Germany.
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Operation Bagration
Operation Bagration (Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, (Белорусская наступательная операция «Багратион», Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya Operatsiya Bagration) a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II.
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
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Operation Mars
Operation Mars, also known as the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation (Russian: Вторая Ржевско-Сычёвская наступательная операция), was the codename for an offensive launched by Soviet forces against German forces during World War II.
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Otto Wöhler
Otto Wöhler (12 July 1894 – 5 February 1987) was a German general in the Wehrmacht and a war criminal during World War II.
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Panzer 38(t)
The Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) was originally a Czechoslovak tank of pre-World War II design.
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Ru-Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика.ogg), also unofficially known as the Russian Federation, Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I or Russia (rɐˈsʲijə; from the Ρωσία Rōsía — Rus'), was an independent state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest, most populous, and most economically developed union republic of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991 and then a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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T-34
The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank that had a profound and lasting effect on the field of tank design.
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Theodor Scherer
Theodor Scherer (17 September 1889 – 17 May 1951) was a German general and divisional commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
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Velikiye Luki
Velikiye Luki (p; lit. great meanders).
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Vitebsk
Vitebsk, or Vitsebsk (Ві́цебск, Łacinka: Viciebsk,; Витебск,, Vitebskas), is a city in Belarus.
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War crimes of the Wehrmacht
War crimes of the Wehrmacht were those carried out by the German combined armed forces (''Wehrmacht Heer'', Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe) during World War II.
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Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht (lit. "defence force")From wehren, "to defend" and Macht., "power, force".
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Winter Campaign of 1941–42
The Winter Campaign of 1941–1942 from 5 December 1941 to 7 May 1942 was the name given by Soviet military command to the period that marked the commencement of the Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation (better known as the Battle of Moscow).
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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11th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
The 11th Panzer Division (11th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army, the Wehrmacht, during World War II, established in 1940.
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1st SS Infantry Brigade
The 1 SS Infantry Brigade (mot) was a unit of the German Waffen SS formed from former concentration camp guards for service in the Soviet Union behind the main front line during the Second World War.
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20th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The German 20th Infantry Division was an infantry division of Nazi Germany.
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249th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 249th Rifle Division was raised in 1941, within days of the German invasion, as a standard Red Army rifle division, and served for the duration of the Great Patriotic War in that role.
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291st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The German 291st Infantry Division, was an infantry division of the Wehrmacht and served in World War II.
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2nd Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)
The 2nd Mechanised Corps was a formation in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War.
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357th Rifle Division
The 357th Rifle Division formed in August, 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division, at Sarapul.
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3rd Air Army
3rd Air Army (3 VA) was an Air Army of the Soviet Armed Forces during the Second World War.
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3rd Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)
The 3rd Mountain Division (3.) was a formation of the German Wehrmacht during World War II.
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3rd Panzer Army
The 3rd Panzer Army (3.) was a German armoured formation during World War II, formed from the 3rd Panzer Group on 1 January 1942.
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3rd Shock Army
The 3rd Shock Army (Третья ударная армия) was a field army of the Red Army formed during the Second World War.
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4th Shock Army
4th Shock Army was a Combined Arms Army of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II.
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5th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)
The 5th Mountain Division (5.) was established in the Austrian Tirol in October 1940, out of regiments taken from the 1st Mountain Division and the 10th Infantry Division.
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6th Luftwaffe Field Division (Germany)
The 6th Luftwaffe Field Division (6.Luftwaffen-Feld-Division) was an infantry division of the Luftwaffe branch of the Wehrmacht that fought in World War II.
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7th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 7th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed twice.
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83rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 83rd Infantry Division, (83.), was a German military unit that fought in several notable actions during World War II.
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8th Estonian Rifle Corps
The 8th Estonian Rifle Corps (2nd formation) (8-й Эстонский стрелковый корпус, 8.) was a formation in the Soviet Army, created on 6 November 1942, during World War II.
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8th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
The 8th Panzer Division was a formation of the Wehrmacht ''Heer''.
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Battle for Velikiye Luki (1943), Battle of Velikiye Luki, Velikie-Luki Offensive Operation.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Velikiye_Luki
