What is Eastern Front (World War II)?
{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Eastern Front | partof = the [[European theatre of World War II]] | image = EasternFrontWWIIcolage.png | image_size = 300px | caption = '''Clockwise from top left''': Soviet [[T-34]] tanks storming [[Poznań]], 1945; German [[Tiger I]] tanks during the [[Battle of Kursk]], 1943; German [[Junkers Ju 87|Stuka]] dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; [[Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph|German ''Einsatzgruppen'' death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine]], 1942; [[Wilhelm Keitel]] signing the [[German Instrument of Surrender]], 1945; Soviet troops at the [[Battle of Stalingrad]], 1943 | date = {{nowrap|[[Operation Barbarossa|{{Start date|1941|06|22|df=y}}]] – [[German Instrument of Surrender|{{Start date|1945|05|08|df=y}}]]<br />({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=06|day1=22|year1=1941|month2=05|day2=8|year2=1945}})}} | place = Europe, east of Germany: [[Central and Eastern Europe]], in later stages: [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and [[Austria under National Socialism|Austria]] | territory = {{collapsible list|bullets=y|title=[[Military occupations by the Soviet Union#After the Soviet Union entered the war on the Allied side|Soviet occupation]] of<br />[[Central and Eastern Europe]] |[[Allied occupation of Germany]], [[Allied-occupied Austria|Austria]] and [[History of Germany (1945–1990)|Partition of Germany]] |[[Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland|Polish puppet state]] and [[Territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II|change of borders]] |[[Soviet occupation of Romania]] |[[Soviet occupation of Hungary]] |{{nowrap|[[1944 Bulgarian coup d'état|Bulgarian communist coup]] and [[Military occupations by the Soviet Union#Bulgaria (1944)|Soviet occupation]]}} |[[Baltic states under Soviet rule (1944–1991)|Soviet re-occupation of the Baltics]] |[[Military occupations by the Soviet Union#Czechoslovakia (1944)|Czechoslovakia cedes]] [[Carpathian Ruthenia#Transition to Soviet takeover and control (1944-1945)|Carpathia