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Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast,

Episode 512, Operation Anthropoid.

For DeFure, 1942, was to be the year of ending the war in the East. But first, he had to react to Stalin's massive and all-encompassing eastern front counter-attacks, which had started in early December,

1941. As we have seen, though taking almost unimaginable losses, the Russians pushed the Germans away from the edges of the Soviet capital,

due to the sheer numbers coming at them, the weather, and the fact that the invaders had almost bled themselves dry just to get here.

Still, Operation Barbarossa, the knockout punch, had failed. The question now was, what came next?

But before that could be answered, the Soviet counter-attacks had to be dealt with. As we've seen,

Army Group Center pulled back, or rather was pushed back to the Rijev line, and here Hitler

would retreat no further, for he still

had ideas of taking Moscow. And since Rzev is only 144 miles or 231 kilometers west-northwest of

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