Army Group Vistula
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Army Group Vistula was an Army Group of the Wehrmacht, formed on 24 January 1945. It lasted for 105 days, having been put together from elements of Army Group A, Army Group Centre, and a variety of new or ad hoc formations. It was formed to protect Berlin from the Soviet armies advancing from the Vistula River.
Briefing at the headquarters of Army Group Vistula
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 S72707, Heinrich Himmler
Image: Gotthard Heinrici
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1979 128 26, Bernhard Hermann Ramcke, Kurt Student crop
East Pomeranian offensive
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The East Pomeranian strategic offensive operation was an offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. It took place in Pomerania and West Prussia from 10 February – 4 April 1945.
Soviet troops manning two M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (MGMC) self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicles (half-tracks) in Danzig, March 1945.
Pomeranian and Silesian offensives
German infantrymen during street fighting in Wollin, March 1945
Soviet IS-2 in Stargard, 19 March 1945