Europe at War: Episode 70 of Beyond Barbarossa, the podcast about the Eastern Front of World War II

Beyond Barbarossa is no longer the only podcast focusing on the Eastern Front of World War II. David Sumner, host and producer of the Europe at War podcast, joins to discuss the Battle of the Halbe Pocket. 

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David Sumner, podcaster

Map: The Battle of the Halbe Pocket, April 1945

Photos from David Sumner

The Halbe forest, 2025

A defensive hole dug in the floor of the Halbe Forest

A bullet shell with the round still inside it, the outer shell which corroded from being in the ground for eight decades. 

The comb David Sumner found in the Halbe Forest

From the Halbe Pocket battle

General Theodor Busse

General Walther Wenke 

Arden nazi Ferdinand Shorner