Battle Of Berlin#shorts#berlin#germany

[вирус-ур]

"After 10 years you will not recognize Germany" - Adolf Hitler 1935

[TheNewJujuYTCheese]

Germany Today-🏳️‍🌈 Germany back then-🏴‍☠️
Edit:I think I started a chat war😳

[strikkeX]

The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.[f]

After the Vistula–Oder offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line 60 km (37 mi) east of Berlin. On 9 March, Germany established its defence plan for the city with Operation Clausewitz. The first defensive preparations at the outskirts of Berlin were made on 20 March, under the newly appointed commander of Army Group Vistula, General Gotthard Heinrici.

When the Soviet offensive resumed on 16 April, two Soviet fronts (army groups) attacked Berlin from the east and south, while a third overran German forces positioned north of Berlin. Before the main battle in Berlin commenced, the Red Army encircled the city after successful battles of the Seelow Heights and Halbe. On 20 April 1945, Hitler's birthday, the 1st Belorussian Front led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, advancing from the east and north, started shelling Berlin's city centre, while Marshal Ivan Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front broke through Army Group Centre and advanced towards the southern suburbs of Berlin. On 23 April General Helmuth Weidling assumed command of the forces within Berlin. The garrison consisted of several depleted and disorganised Army and Waffen-SS divisions, along with poorly trained Volkssturm and Hitler Youth members. Over the course of the next week, the Red Army gradually took the entire city.

On 30 April, Hitler and several of his officials committed suicide. The city's garrison surrendered on 2 May but fighting continued to the north-west, west, and south-west of the city until the end of the war in Europe on 8 May (9 May in the Soviet Union) as some German units fought westward so that they could surrender to the Western Allies rather than to the Soviets.[15]

Background
Red Army attacks
Main thrusts of the Red Army and its eastern allies
Berlin operation
German counter-attacks

Berlin offensive
On 12 January 1945, the Red Army began the Vistula–Oder Offensive across the Narew River; and, from Warsaw, a three-day operation on a broad front, which incorporated four army Fronts.[16] On the fourth day, the Red Army broke out and started moving west, up to 30 to 40 km (19 to 25 mi) per day, taking East Prussia, Danzig, and Poznań, drawing up on a line 60 km (37 mi) east of Berlin along the Oder River.[17]

The newly created Army Group Vistula, under the command of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, [18] attempted a counter-attack, but this had failed by 24 February.[19] The Red Army then drove on to Pomerania, clearing the right bank of the Oder River, thereby reaching into Silesia.[17]

In the south, Soviet and Romanian forces besieged Budapest. Three German divisions' attempts to relieve the encircled Hungarian capital city failed, and Budapest fell to the Soviets on 13 February.[20] Adolf Hitler insisted on a counter-attack to recapture the Drau-Danube triangle.[21] The goal was to secure the oil region of Nagykanizsa and regain the Danube River for future operations, [22] but the depleted German forces had been given an impossible task.[23] By 16 March, the German Lake Balaton Offensive had failed, and a counter-attack by the Red Army took back in 24 hours everything the Germans had taken ten days to gain.[24] On 30 March, the Soviets entered Austria; and in the Vienna Offensive they captured Vienna on 13 April.[25]

Between June and September 1944, the German armed forces had lost more than a million men, and it lacked the fuel and armaments needed to operate effectively.[26] On 12 April 1945, Hitler, who had earlier decided to remain in the city against the wishes of his advisers, heard the news that the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt had died.[27] This briefly raised false hopes in the Führerbunker that there might yet be a falling out among the Allies and that Berlin would be saved at the last moment, as had happened once before when Berlin was threatened (see the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg).[28]

No plans were made by the Western Allies to seize the city by a ground operation.[29] The Supreme Commander [Western] Allied Expeditionary Force, General Eisenhower, lost interest in the race to Berlin and saw no further need to suffer casualties by attacking a city that would be in the Soviet sphere of influence after the war, [30] envisioning excessive friendly fire if both armies attempted to occupy the city at once.[31] The major Western Allied contribution to the battle was the bombing of Berlin during 1945.[32] During 1945 the United States Army Air Forces launched very large daytime raids on Berlin and, for 36 nights in succession, scores of RAF Mosquitos bombed the German capital, ending on the night of 20/21 April 1945 just before the Soviets entered the city.[33]

[PelucheFamily-kc]

1945 me in Germany "wow look at the fireworks"

[bedacil]

'It was for the greater good'.

[sanekbluez]

Who can I take a chablone for this meme?

[mrpotato]

As a person who fought in WW2
I see this as a nostalgia

[ТоварищКуяш-ыъ]

History repeats itself. I'm from the United States, but at that moment I was in the USSR when Germany declared war despite the truce. I don't hint at anything, but I think that Berlin is not so white and fluffy to feel sorry for him for losing in their own war.

[kdbzidbapN]

"dont be sad it it happened be happy its over"

-wise man

[marlynmina-cz]

The start of world war II is January 1939 | The end of world war II is May 1945

[riadhasan]

Looks like my boys have reached Berlin

[thedripguy]

I'm so happy cuz I was in Berlin I live in germany and was there the clip u said berlin in 2022

[Lumisimsek]

I Love berlin from Germany🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪❤️❤️❤️

[Bun]

Some stuff have to go through terrible things to change and be better

[KREEKISTHEBEST]

Germany Owns Berlin Now LONG LIVE GERMANY!!❤🎉🎉❤

[ryanhili]

With bad good suffers that's how war is we gave opportunities to prevent them but we don't take them

[JrRandom]

Everyone is talking and bullying(Others) germany when they are gaining military power nowadays 👻👻

[sobanmood]

the Germans started it themselves and they were given what they deserved

[wintermotivation]

When you realise about 75, 000 soldiers and about 40, 000 people were defending Berlin where 1 million soviet involved in battle with about 5, 600 tanks, 20, 000 artrally, 4000 plane's and around 28 maga tone of matrial was involved in this battle and about 3 lakh soviet casualties and 89, 000 killed where about Germans and about 3-4 lakh civilians were massacred by soviet of remain 11 lakh civilians.

[huhsz]

Now gentlemen hear me out, Berlin 2023 is a really good after they passed that new law