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Fronts & armies

Approximate front-line snapshots, axes of attack of the major operations and profiles of army groups, fronts and armies with their commanders. Everything carries a date of state and an accuracy marker.

≈ This section is a reconstruction with an accuracy on the order of tens of kilometres. Sources are attached to each object on the map.

Formations (48)

Axis

Red Army and allies

Western Allies

Front-line snapshots (40)

Eastern Front

  • 10 September 1939German advance in Polandshown until 16 Sept 1939 · ≈
  • 17 September 1939German forward line on the day of the Soviet invasionshown until 27 Sept 1939 · ≈
  • 9 July 1941Eastern Front — after the border battlesshown until 29 Sept 1941 · ≈
  • 30 September 1941Eastern Front — eve of Operation Typhoonshown until 4 Dec 1941 · ≈
  • 5 December 1941Eastern Front — furthest German advance of 1941shown until 27 Jul 1942 · ≈
  • 23 August 1942Eastern Front — Case Blue: Volga and Caucasusshown until 17 Nov 1942 · ≈
  • 18 November 1942Eastern Front — eve of Operation Uranusshown until 24 Mar 1943 · ≈
  • 25 March 1943Eastern Front — stabilised with the Kursk salientshown until 4 Aug 1943 · ≈
  • 1 January 1944Eastern Front — after the Dnieper battlesshown until 14 May 1944 · ≈
  • 15 May 1944Eastern Front — before Operation Bagrationshown until 30 Aug 1944 · ≈
  • 31 August 1944Eastern Front — Vistula, East Prussia, Romaniashown until 11 Jan 1945 · ≈
  • 12 January 1945Eastern Front — start of the Vistula–Oder offensiveshown until 14 Feb 1945 · ≈
  • 15 February 1945Eastern Front — on the Odershown until 15 Apr 1945 · ≈
  • 16 April 1945Eastern Front — start of the Berlin operationshown until 8 May 1945 · ≈

Scandinavia & Finland

  • 15 December 1939Winter War — Mannerheim Lineshown until 14 Feb 1940 · ≈
  • 12 March 1940Winter War — front at the armisticeshown until 13 Mar 1940 · ≈
  • 1 May 1940Norway — German control of the south after the Allied evacuation of Åndalsnes and Namsosshown until 9 Jun 1940 · ≈
  • 6 December 1941Continuation War — Finnish front stabilisedshown until 9 Jun 1944 · ≈
  • 1 September 1944Continuation War — front after the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensiveshown until 19 Sept 1944 · ≈

Western Front

  • 16 May 1940Battle of France — Meuse breakthroughshown until 23 May 1940 · ≈
  • 24 May 1940Somme–Aisne line and the Dunkirk pocketshown until 4 Jun 1940 · ≈
  • 24 May 1940Dunkirk pocket (southern edge)shown until 4 Jun 1940 · ≈
  • 10 June 1940Fall Rot — German advance across the Seineshown until 24 Jun 1940 · ≈
  • 12 June 1944Normandy — consolidated beachheadshown until 24 Jul 1944 · ≈
  • 15 September 1944Western Front — Allies at the German bordershown until 15 Dec 1944 · ≈
  • 16 December 1944Western Front — eve of the Ardennes offensiveshown until 6 Mar 1945 · ≈
  • 7 March 1945Western Front — on the Rhineshown until 24 Apr 1945 · ≈
  • 25 April 1945Western Front — Elbe and Bavariashown until 8 May 1945 · ≈

Mediterranean & Italy

  • 1 December 1940Western Desert — Italian positions at Sidi Barranishown until 8 Dec 1940 · ≈
  • 15 April 1941Western Desert — Rommel at the Egyptian frontier; Tobruk besiegedshown until 17 Nov 1941 · ≈
  • 26 May 1942Western Desert — Gazala lineshown until 20 Jun 1942 · ≈
  • 23 October 1942Western Desert — El Alamein lineshown until 4 Nov 1942 · ≈
  • 20 March 1943Tunisia — Mareth Lineshown until 27 Mar 1943 · ≈
  • 15 October 1943Italian Front — Volturno lineshown until 19 Jan 1944 · ≈
  • 20 January 1944Italian Front — Gustav Lineshown until 4 Jun 1944 · ≈
  • 5 June 1944Italian Front — Rome liberatedshown until 14 Sept 1944 · ≈
  • 15 September 1944Italian Front — Gothic Lineshown until 19 Apr 1945 · ≈
  • 20 April 1945Italian Front — breakthrough to the Poshown until 2 May 1945 · ≈

Balkans & East-Central Europe

  • 12 April 1941Battle of Greece — Albanian front and the Olympus–Servia lineshown until 20 Apr 1941 · ≈
  • 12 April 1941Invasion of Yugoslavia — Axis advance around 12 Aprilshown until 17 Apr 1941 · ≈

Axes of attack (76)

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