1945 military offensive by the USSR in the Eastern Front of WWII
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Lower Silesian offensive
Part of the Silesian offensives on the Eastern Front of World War II
Russian map of the Silesian offensives
Date
8–24 February 1945
Location
Lower Silesia
Result
Soviet victory
Belligerents
Germany
Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Ferdinand Schörner
Ivan Konev
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Poland and Eastern Germany 1944–45
Red Army operations
Bagration
Vilnius
Belostok
Lublin–Brest
Osovets
Studzianki
Lvov–Sandomierz
Radzymin
Memel
Dukla Pass
Gumbinnen
2nd Baltic
Vistula–Oder
Poznań
Sandomierz–Silesia
East Prussia
Königsberg
Heiligenbeil
Samland
East Pomerania
Kolberg
Danzig
Silesia
Lower Silesia
Upper Silesia
Breslau
Polish resistance operations
Tempest
Murowana Oszmianka
Porytowe Wzgórze
Ostra Brama
Lwów
Warsaw
Pęcice
Schoenfeld
Wehrmacht operations
Doppelkopf
Solstice
Hannibal
The Lower Silesian offensive (Russian: Нижне-Силезская наступательная операция) was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II in 1945, involving forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front under Marshal Ivan Konev. It cleared German troops from much of Lower Silesia and besieged a large German force in the provincial capital, Breslau. The offensive began on February 8 and continued until February 24, when the Soviets ceased their offensive having captured a small bridgehead across the Neisse River near Forst. The offensive directly succeeded the Vistula–Oder offensive, in which Konev's troops had driven the German Army Group A from Poland, liberating Kraków and taking bridgeheads over the Oder.
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