Battle of Berlin

Berlin Campaign to Destroy the German Nest

This battle took place at the end of the Soviet-German War, which was the last and largest strategic offensive campaign of the Soviet Union to capture Berlin, the capital of fascist Germany.

In the spring of 1945, the Soviet Union and the allied forces of Britain and France both invaded Germany, and the German capital Berlin began to be attacked by the east and the west. The defeat of the Germans is decided. Hitler made a dying struggle, * * * mobilized 1 million troops, more than 1, guns, 1,5 tanks and self-propelled guns, and 3,3 combat planes, and prepared to set up three defense lines to defend Berlin, so as to delay the war and wait for the internal division of the Allies to make peace with Britain and the United States alone. In order to completely destroy the German nests and end the European war, the Soviet high command decided to concentrate 2.5 million troops, 42, artillery pieces, more than 6,2 tanks and self-propelled artillery pieces, and 7,5 combat aircraft to launch the Berlin campaign. The battle began on April 16th. After fierce fighting, the 1st Belarusian Army under the command of Soviet Marshal zhukov and the 1st Ukrainian Army under the command of Soviet Marshal konev broke through the Oder River on 19th and 18th respectively? Nice river defense.

on the 21st, we began to storm Berlin. On the 24th, the troops of the two front armies met in the southeast of Berlin, and about 2, Germans were encircled. On the 25th, they met again in the west of Berlin, and completed the encirclement of Berlin, making 2, German troops in the city become turtles in a jar. On the same day, the 1st Ukrainian Army joined forces with the US Army in Tolgao on the Elbe River. The 2nd Army of Belarus under the command of Marshal rokossovsky launched an attack on April 2O, crossing the West Oder River, breaking through the German defense line, and pinning the 3rd Army of German Tanks and some reserves on the line to ensure the right wing of the 1st Army of Belarus. On April 27, the Soviet troops who took the multi-channel centripetal assault tactics to carry out the storm finally broke into the urban area of Berlin after fierce street fighting. On the 2th, Soviet troops began to storm, and the next day, they captured the parliament building, which symbolizes the highest authority of the Third Reich. On the 3th, Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself in the basement of the Prime Minister's Office. On May 2nd, General Weiderling, commander of Berlin garrison, led the remnants to surrender. On the 8th, Marshal keitel, the representative of the fascist German high command, signed an unconditional surrender to the Soviet Union and allied expeditionary forces in Berlin.

In the Battle of Berlin, Soviet troops wiped out 93 German divisions, captured about 48, officers and men, and seized 8,6 artillery pieces, more than 1,5 tanks and self-propelled artillery pieces, and 4,5 aircraft. The Soviet army lost 34, people, more than 1,2 artillery pieces, more than 2,1 tanks and self-propelled artillery pieces, and 527 aircraft. At this point, fascist Germany declared its demise, and the four-year Soviet-German war and the nearly six-year European war ended.