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    The VistulaOder offensive (Russian: Висло-Одерская операция, romanized: Vislo-Oderskaya operatsiya) was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the...
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  • (shattered in the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive), Army Group Centre (similarly largely destroyed in the East Prussian Offensive), and a variety of new or...
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    Zhukov from reaching Berlin in February (the object of the massive VistulaOder offensive), since it became a priority to clear German forces from Pomerania...
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  • Vistula Offensive can refer to: Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive in 1945 This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    major offensives of the European theatre of World War II. After the VistulaOder offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on...
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    became commander of the 1st Belorussian Front which took part in the VistulaOder offensive and the Battle of Berlin. He called on his troops to "remember our...
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    bridgehead across the Neisse River near Forst. The offensive directly succeeded the VistulaOder offensive, in which Konev's troops had driven the German...
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  • Soviet advances during the VistulaOder Offensive, which had brought attacking forces up to the eastern bank of the Oder. It contained four "Fortress...
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    across the complex. In January 1945, after the Red Army launched the VistulaOder Offensive and approached the camp, almost 60,000 prisoners were forced to...
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  • strategic offensive operation, attacking in the direction of Poznań under Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front. It then took part in the VistulaOder Offensive between...
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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...
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    Vistula and branding the insurgents as criminals in radio broadcasts. In early 1945, in the VistulaOder Offensive, the Red Army crossed the Vistula and...
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    investigation by the International Committee of the Red Cross. After the VistulaOder offensive where the mass graves fell into Soviet control, the Soviet Union...
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    command due to the inability of German forces to stop the Soviet VistulaOder Offensive. He ended the war commanding the 5th Panzer Army on Western Front...
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  • on Berlin in early 1945. Launched January 12, 1945, the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive had ripped open a gap hundreds of kilometers long in German defensive...
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    Karol Świerczewski). The First Polish Army participated in the VistulaOder Offensive, the Battle of Kolberg and the final Battle of Berlin. After the...
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    control of Warsaw in January 1945, the First Army took part in the VistulaOder Offensive, and afterwards it moved towards Bydgoszcz. The Polish First Army...
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    Proskurov-Chernovtsy Operation, the Lvov-Sandomierz Operation, the Vistula-Oder Offensive and the Battle of Berlin. After the war, the army was stationed...
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    the Warsaw-Poznań Operation, a part of the Vistula-Oder Offensive. On 13 January, 1BF began an offensive toward Pillkallen (Schlossberg between 1938...
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    Chuikov led his forces into Poland during Operation Bagration and the VistulaOder Offensive before advancing on Berlin. He personally accepted the unconditional...
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    Belgorod-Khar'kov Offensive Operation, Battle of the Dnieper, Uman–Botoșani Offensive, Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive, VistulaOder Offensive, Berlin Offensive, and the...
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    the Vistula river. The campaign enabled the next operation, the VistulaOder Offensive, to come within sight of the German capital. The Soviets were initially...
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    Fortification Region. The Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen (Fortified Front Oder-Warthe-Bogen), also called the Festung im Oder-Warthe-Bogen or Ostwall (East Wall)...
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    the VistulaOder Offensive. Due to a lack of rail transport, fuel and ammunition had to be transported from the right bank of the Vistula to the Oder bridgeheads...
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    Vistula and seizing the Magnuszew bridgehead. The army defended the bridgehead until January 1945, when it helped launch the VistulaOder Offensive....
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  • Germans out of eastern Poland as far as the Vistula River. The Red Army launched the VistulaOder offensive on 12 January 1945, inflicted a huge defeat...
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    the Eastern Front. On 12 January, the Soviets began the massive VistulaOder Offensive, originally planned for 20 January. It had been brought forward...
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  • the commencement of the VistulaOder offensive in early January 1945, Army Group A began a general withdrawal towards the Oder river.: 8  On 1 January...
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  • honorific during the fighting near Warsaw. At the start of the Vistula-Oder Offensive in January 1945 the 47th Army initially played a secondary role...
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  • both its army and its entire army group.: 504  After the Soviet VistulaOder Offensive in January 1945, the division was pushed south-west by the Soviet...
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