Vistula–Oder Offensive

Name: Vistula–Oder Offensive
Start: 1945-01-01
End: 1945-12-31
Location: Warschau

1945 • Warschau

Residents of Lodz greet the Soviet tankists entering the city in 1945. Original description in Russian (http://armor.kiev.ua) : ИСУ-122. Лодзь, 1945 г. (ISU-122, Lodz, 1945) Source: from http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/WWII/SU152/ pre-1954 image, unknown author also see: [1] at the State Archive of the Russian Federation with caption: "Residents of Lodz greet Soviet tankists entering the city"

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Map of the Eastern Front (WWII), 1945-01-01 to 1945-05-07

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The vistula-oder offensive - progression of the soviet army between 12 January and 2 February 1945

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Soviet troops during the Vistula-Oder offensive

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Путь к Победе. Висло-Одерская наступательная операция.

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Studzianki Pancerne - tablica informacyjna in situ.

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Studzianki Pancerne - tablica informacyjna in situ. T-34 217 w Studziankach w styczniu 1945.

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Soviet tanks during the Oder offensive (1945)

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Vistula–Oder Offensive

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Слева в кадре — подорванный и брошенный экипажем немецкий танк «Тигр» (Pz.Kpfw. VI «Tiger I») из 501-го тяжелого танкового батальона.

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Жители освобожденного польского города Ченстохова осматривают сгоревший немецкий автомобиль «Фиат 1100А» (Fiat 1100A).

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Обстрел немецкой группировки войсками Первого Белорусского Фронта. Залп гвардейских минометов "Катюша" 1-го Белорусского фронта.

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Советские самоходные орудия СУ-76 движутся по площади Бронислава Перацкого (ныне площадь В. Беганьского) в городе Ченстохов (Częstochowa). 1-й Украинский фронт.

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Советский танк ИС-2 и грузовики с солдатами переправляются через реку Одер.

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Historical Overview

The Vistula–Oder offensive was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European theatre of World War II in January 1945. The army made a major advance into German-held territory, capturing Kraków, Warsaw, and Poznań. The Red Army had built up their strength around a number of key bridgeheads, with two fronts commanded by Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Marshal Ivan Konev. Against them, the German Army Group A, led by Colonel-General Josef Harpe, was outnumbered five to one. Within days, German commandants evacuated the concentration camps, sending the prisoners on their death marches to the west, where ethnic Germans also started fleeing. In a little over two weeks, the Red Army had advanced 480 kilometres (300 mi) from the Vistula to the Oder, only 69 kilometres (43 mi) from Berlin, which was undefended. However, Zhukov called a halt, owing to continued German resistance on his northern flank (Pomerania), and the advance on Berlin had to be delayed until April.