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  • CHAPTER XV: The Victory Sealed: Surrender at Reims

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External links

• Prof Richard Overy writes a summary about the eastern front for the BBC
• Rarities of the USSR photochronicles. Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 Borodulin Collection. Excellent set of war photos
• Russian veterans of World War II memories(In English and Russian)
• OnWar maps of the Eastern Front
• Memories of Leutnant d.R. Wilhelm Radkovsky 1940-1945 Experiences as a German soldier on the Eastern and Western Front
• Pobediteli: Eastern Front flash animation (photos, video, interviews, memorials. Written from a Russian perspective)
• Feldgrau.com The German Armed Forces 1919-1945
• Information about the Eastern front up to September 1943
• RKKA in World War II

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