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April 03rd, 1945
During April 3, the 2nd Belarussian Front forces were mopping up the encircled German force east of Gdansk and seized settlements Neuendorf, Kleinplenendorf, Siegerkranz, Heubude, Krakauerkempe and Krakau. Over 2,000 German personnel were taken prisoner in the area on April 1 and 2.
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April 02nd, 1945
During April 2, the 2nd Ukrainian Front forces maintained their advance on the Bratislava approach and captured the town and railroad station of Topolcany as well as more than 100 other settlements, including Bosany, Velke Ripnany, Siladice, Sucha, Pudmerice, Modra, Pezinok, Vajnori, Farna, Bischdorf (4 km east of Bratislava), Gutor and Samorin and the Bosany, Velke Ripnany, Siladice, Sered, Modra Senkvice, Ceklis, Vajnori, Uzor and Bischdorf railroad stations.
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April 01st, 1945
Following a protracted siege and bitter fighting, the 1st Ukrainian Front forces defeated the encircled enemy garrison in the city and fortress of Glogau, seizing this formidable Wehrmacht strongpoint on the left bank of the Oder.
More than 8,000 enemy personnel were taken prisoner and a lot of materiel was captured.
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March 31st, 1945
The 1st Belarussian Front troops west and southwest of the town of Kystrzyn (Kustrin) surrounded and defeated a large German garrison that defended the area between the Warta and the Oder. The Front’s troops captured 3,170 prisoners, 54 field guns and 150 machineguns. The enemy lost up to 3,000 personnel killed in action.
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March 30th, 1945
On March 30, the 2nd Belarussian Front troops finished mopping up the group of enemy forces near Danzig, assaulting and seizing the city and fortress of Danzig with an important harbor and a key German naval base in the Baltic.
The national flag of Poland was run up over Gdansk.
When fighting for the city, the Front’s troops captured 10,000 prisoners and 84 aircraft, 140 tanks and self-propelled guns, 358 field guns, 566 mortars, 1,397 machineguns, 15 armored trains, 45 submarines, 306 steam engines...
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March 29th, 1945
On March 29, the 3rd Belarussian Front troops finished mopping up the encircled West-Prussian group of German forces southwest of Königsberg.
From March 13 to 29, the enemy lost over 50,000 personnel as prisoners of war and 80,000 killed in action. At the same time, the Front’s troops captured 128 aircraft, 605 tanks and self-propelled guns, more than 3,500 field guns, 1,440 mortars, 6,447 machineguns, 586 armored personnel carriers, 247 radios, 35,060 wheeled vehicles...
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March 28th, 1945
On March 28, the 3rd Belarussian Front troops continued mopping up the remainder of the defeated enemy in the vicinity of Cape Kalholzer Haken southwest of Konigsberg. On March 27, the Front’s forces captured 222 field guns, 223 mortars, 430 machineguns, 22 armored personnel carriers, 35 radios and 1,500 wheeled vehicles.
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March 27th, 1945
On March 27, the 3rd Belarussian Front troops were mopping up the enemy southwest of Konigsberg in the vicinity of the cape and took the settlements of Wolittnick, Schnakenberg, Follendorf and Lindenberg. On March 26, our forces captured eight aircraft, 113 tanks, 66 armored personnel carriers, 594 field guns, 350 mortars, 1,100 machineguns, 30 radios, 200 tractors and prime movers...
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March 26th, 1945
On March 26, the 3rd Belarussian Front forces finished mopping up the enemy on the Frisches Haff Bay coast, southwest of the city of Königsberg and took the settlements of Gross Hoppenbruch, Reinschenhof, and Deutsch Bahnau and the Rosenberg port and flung the remainder of the defeated enemy back to Cape Kahlholzer Haken. According to preliminary reports, the Front’s troops captured more than 21,000 prisoners in the area on March 26.
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March 25th, 1945
On March 25, the advancing 3rd Belarussian Front troops took the town of Heiligenbeil, the last German strongpoint on the Frisches Haff Bay coast, south-west of the town of Königsberg as well as took the settlements of Partheinen, Rensegut, Keimkallen, Bregden, Steindorf, Carben, Preussisch Banau, Schettnienen, Gerlachsdorf, Raade, Leysuhnen, Busterwalde, and Raunenberg.
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...25 - 03 April 1945...
* Updated daily
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