Soviet 60th Army

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Red Army formation field army

The Soviet 60th Army was a Red Army field formation of the USSR that advanced through Eastern Europe in World War II and is historically notable for liberating the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945.

Aliases (1)

1st Ukrainian Front ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Red Army formation → field army →
activePeriod	1941–1945 →
advancedThrough	Eastern Europe →
areaOfOperations	Belarus → Czechoslovakia → Poland → Ukraine →
branch	Soviet Army →
commemoratedOn	International Holocaust Remembrance Day →
conflict	Second World War →
country	Soviet Union →
disbandedIn	1945 →
engagedAgainst	Nazi Germany → Wehrmacht →
finalOperation	Prague Offensive →
formedIn	1941 →
frontAssignment	1st Ukrainian Front → Central Front → Voronezh Front →
liberated	Auschwitz I main camp → Auschwitz II-Birkenau → Auschwitz III-Monowitz area →
liberationDateOfAuschwitz	27 January 1945 →
notableAction	liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp →
notableBattle	Battle of Kiev (1943) → Battle of Kursk →
notableCommander	Ivan Chernyakhovsky → Kiril Moskalenko → Pavel Kurochkin →
notableFor	role in liberation of Nazi concentration camps →
operationParticipatedIn	Battle of Kursk → Chernigov–Pripyat Offensive → Kiev offensive (1943) → Kursk strategic offensive operation → Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive → Prague Offensive → Proskurov–Chernovtsy Offensive → Upper Silesian Offensive → Vistula–Oder Offensive →
partOf	Red Army → Soviet Ground Forces →
subordinateUnitInLiberation	100th Rifle Division → 107th Rifle Division → 322nd Rifle Division →
theater	Eastern Front →
type	combined arms army →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
LiberationOfAuschwitz → LiberationOfAuschwitz ("1st Ukrainian Front") →	carriedOutBy