Lower Silesian Offensive

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World War II Eastern Front operation military offensive

The Lower Silesian Offensive was a World War II Soviet military campaign in early 1945 aimed at pushing German forces out of Lower Silesia and advancing toward Berlin.

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II Eastern Front operation → military offensive →
aimedAt	German Army Group Centre positions in Lower Silesia →
belligerent	Nazi Germany → Soviet Union →
combatant	Red Army → Wehrmacht →
commandedBy	Ivan Konev → Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev →
commanderSideSoviet	1st Ukrainian Front →
conflict	World War II →
countryInvolved	Germany → Soviet Union →
datePeriod	February 1945 →
endDate	1945-02-24 →
followedBy	Berlin Offensive → Upper Silesian Offensive →
front	1st Ukrainian Front →
historicalEra	late World War II →
involvedUnitGerman	17th Army (Wehrmacht) → 4th Panzer Army →
involvedUnitSoviet	13th Army (Red Army) → 3rd Guards Tank Army → 4th Tank Army → 52nd Army (Red Army) →
location	Germany (1945 borders) → Lower Silesia → Poland (postwar territory) → Silesia →
objective	advance Soviet forces closer to Berlin → push German forces out of Lower Silesia → secure the left flank of the Soviet advance toward Berlin →
opponent	German Army Group Centre →
partOf	Eastern Front of World War II → Vistula–Oder strategic offensive operations →
precededBy	Vistula–Oder Offensive →
result	German forces driven back toward the Neisse River → Soviet capture of most of Lower Silesia → Soviet victory →
startDate	1945-02-08 →
strategicSignificance	reduced German capacity to defend Silesian industrial region → secured the southern flank of the Soviet drive on Berlin →
theater	Eastern Front →
timeframeRelative	after the Vistula–Oder Offensive and before the Berlin Offensive →
typeOfOperation	combined arms offensive →
year	1945 →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Vistula–Oder Offensive →	followedBy
1st Ukrainian Front →	participatedIn
Upper Silesian Offensive →	precededBy