Silesia, Part 1—Episode 96

The Red Army penetrates deep into Germany, leading to the redrawing of eastern European borders after. 

Map 1: The Oder offensive–March 1945

 

Map 2: The Lower Silesian Offensive

 

Map 3: The East Pomeranian Offensive

 

Map 4a: European fronts, 15 February 1945

 

 

Map 4b: European fronts, 15 March 1945 

 

Photos

Marshal Ivan Konev, Commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front

 

General Walther Wencke, chief of staff, Army Group Vistula, February 1945

 

Child soldiers in the wehrmacht: Hitler Youth in Breslau (Wroclaw), February 1945 

 

Breslau (Wroclaw) in fighting, 1945