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  2. Vistula–Oder offensive - Wikipedia

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    The VistulaOder offensive was a major success for the Soviet military. Within a matter of days, the forces involved had advanced hundreds of kilometers, taking much of Poland and striking deep within the pre-war borders of the Reich. The offensive broke the back of Army Group A and much of Germany's remaining capacity for military resistance.

  3. Army Group Vistula - Wikipedia

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    Army Group Vistula (German: Heeresgruppe Weichsel) was an Army Group of the Wehrmacht, formed on 24 January 1945.It lasted for 105 days, having been put together from elements of Army Group A (shattered in the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive), Army Group Centre (similarly largely destroyed in the East Prussian Offensive), and a variety of new or ad hoc formations.

  4. Sandomierz–Silesian offensive - Wikipedia

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    The Sandomierz–Silesian offensive was part of the Soviet VistulaOder offensive (12 January – 3 February 1945) during World War II.It was carried out by the 1st Ukrainian Front under Ivan Konev, aiming to destroy German troops in southern Poland, reach the Oder and capture a bridgehead on the west bank of the Oder.

  5. Polar Star (1943) — offensive to destroy Army Group North. Polkovodets Rumyantsev (1943) — defeat of Army Group South's 4th Panzer Army and Army Detachment Kempf. Prague Offensive (1945) — Soviet offensive in final stages of World War II; Ring (1943) — Destruction of the encircled army at Stalingrad. Samland (1945) — capture of ...

  6. Battle of Poznań (1945) - Wikipedia

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    The Red Army launched the VistulaOder offensive on 12 January 1945, inflicted a huge defeat on the defending German forces, and advanced rapidly into western Poland and eastern Germany. Certain cities which lay on the path of the Soviet advance were declared by Hitler to be Festungen (strongholds), where the garrisons were ordered to mount ...

  7. Army Group Centre - Wikipedia

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    Army Group Centre (German: Heeresgruppe Mitte) was the name of two distinct strategic German Army Groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.The first Army Group Centre was created during the planning of Operation Barbarossa, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, as one of the three German Army formations assigned to the invasion.

  8. Battle of the Oder–Neisse - Wikipedia

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    Soviet artillery bombarding German positions during the Battle of the Seelow Heights. Most of the fighting took place during 1st Belorussian Front's assault on the Seelow Heights, that were defended by the German 9th Army (part of Army Group Vistula), in what became known as the Battle of the Seelow Heights. 1st Ukrainian Front encountered much lighter resistance crossing the Neisse to ...

  9. 3rd Shock Army - Wikipedia

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    It then took part in the VistulaOder Offensive between 12.1.1945 – 3.2.1945. As the Army moved quickly across Poland in March 1945 during the Eastern–Pomeranian strategic offensive operation , it liberated a number of cities, including Vangerin and Labes on 3 March, and Frayenvalde and Regenvalde on 4 March 1945.