Battle of Bautzen (1945)
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The Battle of Bautzen was one of the last battles of the Eastern Front during World War II in Europe. It was fought on the extreme southern flank of the Spremberg-Torgau Offensive, seeing days of pitc
Memorial in Bautzen to Polish and Soviet soldiers and civilians fallen near the town of Wuischke.
Monument to Polish soldiers in Crostwitz
General Karol Świerczewski
Ferdinand Schörner
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Ferdinand Schörner was a German military commander and convicted war criminal, who held the rank of Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was the only German so
Battle of Bautzen (1945)
…Army and on the left by the 7th Mechanized Corps. Opposing these forces was the 4th Panzer Army under General Fritz-Hubert Gräser, of Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner's Army Group Center. On 17 April, the Polish Second Army breached German defenses on the rivers Weisser Schöps and Neisse. Their pursuit of retreating…
Schörner in 1941
Lieutenant Schörner with the Pour le Mérite
Schörner (center) in Bulgaria, 1941
Ferdinand Schörner journeys to Northern Norway and Finland 10–27 July 1942