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Battle of the Seelow Heights
| Battle of Seelow Heights | |||||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front of the Second World War | |||||||||
 A modern view over the Oder from the Seelow Heights | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Soviet Union Poland |
 Germany | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Georgy Zhukov Vasily Chuikov |
Gotthard Heinrici Ferdinand Schörner | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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1,000,000 men 3,059 tanks 16,934 guns and mortars |
112,143 men 587 tanks 2,625 guns | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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Isaev: 5,000–6,000 killed and missing out of ~20,000 total casualties[1] Hastings and Beevor: 30,000[2]–33,000 killed[3][2] |
Total: 47,000 12,000 killed and 35,000 captured[3] | ||||||||
The Battle of the Seelow Heights (German: Schlacht um die Seelower Höhen) was part of the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation (16 April – 2 May 1945). A pitched battle, it was one of the last assaults on large entrenched defensive positions of the Second World War. It was fought over three days, from 16–19 April 1945. Close to 1,000,000 Soviet soldiers of the 1st Belorussian Front (including 78,556 soldiers of the Communist Polish 1st Army), commanded by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, attacked the position known as the "Gates of Berlin". They were opposed by about 110,000 soldiers of the German 9th Army,[4] commanded by General Theodor Busse, as part of the Army Group Vistula.
This battle is often incorporated into the Battle of the Oder–Neisse. The Seelow Heights was where some of the most bitter fighting in the overall battle took place, but it was only one of several crossing points along the Oder and Neisse rivers where the Soviets attacked. The Battle of the Oder–Neisse was itself only the opening phase of the Battle of Berlin.
The result was the encirclement of the German 9th Army and the Battle of Halbe.
- ^ Isaev 2010.
- ^ a b Beevor 2002, p. 244.
- ^ a b Hastings 2005, p. 468.
- ^ Le Tissier 1996, p. 273.
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