Upper Silesian Offensive

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World War II battle military offensive

The Upper Silesian Offensive was a major 1945 Red Army operation in World War II aimed at seizing the industrially vital Upper Silesia region from Nazi Germany.

Aliases (2)

Silesian Offensives ×1
Upper Silesian Offensive Operation ×1

Statements (42)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II battle → military offensive →
alsoKnownAs	Upper Silesian Offensive Operation →
belligerent	Red Army → Wehrmacht →
category	1945 in Germany → Battles and operations of the Eastern Front of World War II → History of Silesia → Military operations of the Soviet Union in World War II →
combatant	Nazi Germany → Soviet Union →
commander	Ferdinand Schörner NERFINISHED → Ivan Konev →
conductedBy	1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army →
conflict	World War II →
countryInvolved	Germany → Soviet Union →
defendedBy	German Army Group Centre →
endDate	1945-03-31 →
followedBy	Berlin Offensive →
goal	seizure of the industrial region of Upper Silesia →
historicalPeriod	late stages of World War II in Europe →
involvedBranch	German Army → Red Army ground forces →
location	Germany (1937 borders) → Silesia → Upper Silesia →
objective	capture of industrial facilities in Upper Silesia →
opponentCommander	Ferdinand Schörner NERFINISHED →
outcome	Soviet capture of most of Upper Silesia →
participatingUnit	1st Ukrainian Front → Army Group Centre →
partOf	Eastern Front of World War II → Vistula–Oder strategic offensive operations →
precededBy	Lower Silesian Offensive →
result	Soviet victory →
startDate	1945-03-15 →
strategicSignificance	denial of German access to key industrial resources → protection of the southern flank of the Soviet advance on Berlin →
theater	Eastern Front →
typeOfOperation	offensive operation →
year	1945 →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lower Silesian Offensive → Vistula–Oder Offensive →	followedBy
Upper Silesian Offensive ("Upper Silesian Offensive Operation") →	alsoKnownAs
8th Guards Army ("Silesian Offensives") →	notableFor
Soviet 60th Army →	operationParticipatedIn
1st Ukrainian Front →	participatedIn