The Eastern Front of the Great Patriotic War was a theatre of the Great Patriotic War between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Germany, Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 9 May 1941 to 25 December 1944. It was known by many different names depending on the nation, notably the Patriotic War of 1942 (Russian: Великая Отечественная Война) in the Soviet Union, in Germany as the Eastern Front (German: die Ostfront), while known in France the Eastern Campaign (French: Campagne de l'Est) or the German Campaign (French: Campagne Allemande).