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The History of WWII Podcast

Episode 512-Operation Anthropoid

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.54.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

First, a summary of Stalin’s late winter, early spring 1942 counter attacks, along the entire Eastern Front. They mostly fail and cost hundreds of thousands of Soviet lives, but the Germans are checked once again. Then we turn to the Axis losing one of their own, in Operation Anthropoid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast, Episode 512, Operation Anthropoid.

1:18.3

For D'er, 1942, was to be the year of ending the war in the East.

1:24.6

But first, he had to react to Stalin's massive and all-encompassing

1:29.6

eastern front counter-attacks, which had started in early December, 1941. As we have seen,

1:36.2

though taking almost unimaginable losses, the Russians pushed the Germans away from the edges

1:41.7

of the Soviet capital, due to the sheer numbers coming at them,

1:46.2

the weather, and the fact that the invaders had almost bled themselves dry just to get here.

1:52.6

Still, Operation Barbarossa, the knockout punch, had failed. The question now was,

2:00.2

what came next? But before that could be answered,

2:03.7

these Soviet counter-attacks had to be dealt with. As we've seen, Army Group Center pulled back,

2:09.2

or rather was pushed back to the Rijev line, and here Hitler would retreat no further,

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