Lower Silesian Offensive

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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.

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Label Occurrences
Lower Silesian Offensive canonical 7
Lower Silesian offensive 1

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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
Ivan Konev
surface form: Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev
commanderSideSoviet 1st Ukrainian Front
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Germany
Soviet Union
datePeriod February 1945
endDate 1945-02-24
followedBy Battle of Berlin
surface form: Berlin Offensive

Upper Silesian Offensive
front 1st Ukrainian Front
historicalEra late World War II
involvedUnitGerman German 17th Army
surface form: 17th Army (Wehrmacht)

German 4th Panzer Army
surface form: 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
Polish People’s Republic
surface form: 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 Army Group Centre
surface form: German Army Group Centre
partOf Eastern Front
surface form: Eastern Front of World War II

Vistula–Oder Offensive
surface form: 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

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Vistula–Oder Offensive followedBy Lower Silesian Offensive
1st Ukrainian Front participatedIn Lower Silesian Offensive
Upper Silesian Offensive precededBy Lower Silesian Offensive
5th Guards Army participatedIn Lower Silesian Offensive
1st Tank Army engagement Lower Silesian Offensive
Defence of the Oder line relatedEvent Lower Silesian Offensive
3rd Guards Tank Army engagedIn Lower Silesian Offensive
52nd Army (Red Army) participatedIn Lower Silesian Offensive
this entity surface form: Lower Silesian offensive