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Vor 2 Tagen · On 20 April 1945, Hitler's birthday, the 1st Belorussian Front led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, advancing from the east and north, started shelling Berlin's city centre, while Marshal Ivan Konev 's 1st Ukrainian Front broke through Army Group Centre and advanced towards the southern suburbs of Berlin.
- 16 April-2 May 1945(2 weeks and 2 days)
- Soviet Union occupies future East Germany
- Allied victory
Vor 5 Tagen · Minsk itself fell to the Red Army on July 3; and, though the Germans extricated a large part of their forces from the Soviet enveloping movement, the Soviet tanks raced ahead, bypassing any attempts to block their path, and were deep into Lithuania and northeastern Poland by mid-July.
Vor 2 Tagen · The German military first clashed with the Red Army's Stalingrad Front on the distant approaches to Stalingrad on 17 July. On 23 August, the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army launched their offensive with support from intensive bombing raids by the Luftwaffe , which reduced much of the city to rubble.
8. Okt. 2024 · military operations on the Eastern Front, 1941–45. The course of World War II changed when Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, just two days ahead of the anniversary of Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia. That move ultimately proved as fatal for Adolf Hitler as it had for Napoleon.
Vor einem Tag · The Red Army, however, put up the most determined resistance, yielding ground only very slowly and at a high cost as the 6th Army approached Stalingrad. On August 23 a German spearhead penetrated the city’s northern suburbs, and the Luftwaffe rained incendiary bombs that destroyed most of the city’s wooden housing.
Vor 3 Tagen · Despite the rapid relocation of Red Army armaments production east of the Urals and a dramatic increase of production in 1942, especially of armour, new aircraft types and artillery, the Heer (German army) was able to mount another large-scale offensive in June 1942, although on a much reduced front than the previous summer.
Vor 2 Tagen · By March, Western Allied forces were crossing the Rhine River, capturing hundreds of thousands of troops from Germany’s Army Group B. The Red Army had meanwhile entered Austria, and both fronts quickly approached Berlin.
