What is the biggest street fighting in the history of the world army?

After the Battle of Stalingrad, the world anti-fascist war turned to the offensive stage, the Soviet Union began to counterattack, and the Anglo-American Coalition forces also landed in Normandy, opening up the second battlefield in Europe. Coupled with Germany's failure in the battlefield in North Africa, the Anglo-American Coalition forces landed in Sicily, which led Germany to fall into the quagmire of third-line operations.

On the western front, the United States and Britain successively liberated Paris, invaded Germany and approached Berlin. On the southern front, the Allies invaded the Italian capital Rome. The Soviet troops on the eastern front not only recovered all the German occupied areas, but also strode all the way to the periphery of Berlin.

1945 April 13 After the Soviet Union struggled to conquer Vienna, the Austrian capital, it was only 100 km away from Berlin, while the United States and Britain had already attacked the Elbe River, and it was only 120 km away from Berlin. Everyone knows that the battle of Berlin will be the last madness of the Germans, so it is bound to pay a very heavy price to conquer Berlin.

/kloc-in April of 0/6, out of hatred for the Germans, the Soviet army took the lead in launching the Berlin campaign in three ways.

On June 5438+08, the First Belarusian Army of the Soviet Union launched a large-scale mechanized operation in eastern Berlin under the command of zhukov. The Soviet steel torrent roared past and captured the Zelov Highland. On the 20th, the vanguard troops of the First Army arrived in the suburbs of Berlin, and Soviet troops began to shell Berlin.

On 20th, the Ukrainian First Army under the command of konev broke through the German defense zone of Nice River and arrived in the southwest suburb of Berlin.

On June 19, the Second Belarusian Army under the command of Kosovski launched an attack from the north to Du Qiang, east of the Oder River.

At this point, the Soviet armed forces completed the siege of Berlin and cleared the Germans near Berlin.

On 26th, after thousands of Soviet planes and guns bombed Berlin, Marshal zhukov issued the ultimate order to attack the Soviet Union, and the bitter street fighting began. The Soviet Union besieged the Soviet Union from all directions, and every street and building was the target of the Soviet Union and the German army. Due to the tenacious resistance of the Germans, every goal occupied by the Soviet Union and every step forward will be a painful price.

On the 29th, Hitler announced his marriage to Eva, and then committed suicide.

On the 30th, Soviet troops launched an attack on the German Reichstag. Every time the Soviets go up, they have to face the crazy resistance of the Germans. On the 30th of March1year, the Soviet army completely occupied the German Reichstag and planted the national flag.

On May 2, German Berlin Yugoslav capital commander Wei Deling signed the surrender book, and the German army in Berlin laid down their weapons.

So the battle of Berlin ended.

In this war, the Soviet Union invested more than 2.5 million people in three group armies and the German army invested more than 800,000 people. In the end, the Soviet Union suffered more than 350,000 casualties and the German army suffered 480,000 casualties.

Many people may think that the battle of Stalingrad is the biggest street fighting, because both sides invested more troops than the battle of Berlin, but the street fighting of Stalingrad is only part of the whole battle. At that time, only 6.5438+0.7 million Germans participated in street fighting, and only 70,000 Soviet soldiers guarded Stalingrad. In the defence of Berlin alone, there were nearly one million Belarusian First Army soldiers who attacked Berlin, and the Germans who guarded Berlin added up to more than 600,000 people, including Hitler's militia and youth army.

Therefore, in comparison, on the scale of street fighting, the battle of Berlin is relatively large.