The east-west battlefield during World War II was demarcated by Germany, and the general eastern and western front battlefields were collectively referred to as Germany's east-west battlefield. In layman's terms, the eastern front was east of Berlin, mainly against the Soviet Union, while the western front was mainly against allied forces such as Britain and the United States.
World war ii
1. Battlefield on the Eastern Front
It mainly refers to the main battlefield of Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, of course, the geographical scope of the war includes Poland, Finland, the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania and other countries in addition to the Soviet Union. According to the Soviet Union's "Great Patriotic War", Germany had 13 million troops in the war before and after, and the number of casualties was about four million. In the early stages of the war, the Germans drove their main forces to the Eastern Front in an attempt to attack and occupy the Soviet Union in a big way. However, with the advancement of the war and the outbreak of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet-German war began to take an important turn, and the Soviet Union began to enter the stage of all-round counteroffensive. Finally, the Soviets forced their way into the center of Berlin on April 27, 1945, the Soviets began to storm the Reichstag in Berlin on April 29, and on May 2, the German garrison generals surrendered, and the battle ended.
The Soviet Union marched into Berlin, Germany, during World War II
2. Battlefield on the Western Front
It mainly refers to the war between Germany and the British and American Allies in the early stage and the United States in the later period. The geographical scope of the war included western European continents, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark and other countries, in 1940 Germany bypassed the Maginot Line and began to attack France, due to the serious strategic mistakes of the Anglo-French coalition forces, forcing western European countries except Britain to surrender. The war on the Western Front came to an end, but the war between Germany and Great Britain did not end there. In 1943, U.S. troops landed on the Italian island of Sicily, and the western front began to enter the second phase, that is, the stage of the Allied counteroffensive. With the Allied landings in Normandy and the meeting of the U.S. and Soviet armies on the Elbe in 1945, Germany began to count down to its demise.
In the late stages of the European theater of World War II, the difference in strength between the East and west lines of the German army was too great. For example, after the Normandy landings, the German forces on the East-West Front were 9:1, before the Ardennes counterattack it was 6:4, and then it fell sharply to 8:2.