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The Prague Offensive (Russian:Пражская наступательная операция, Prazhskaya nastupatelnaya operacia, Prague Offensive Operation) was the last major battle of World War II in Europe. The battle for Prague was fought on the Eastern Front from May 6 to May 11, 1945. This battle is particularly noteworthy in that it ended after Third Reich capitulated on May 8, 1945. This battle is also noteworthy in that it was fought concurrent with the Prague Uprising. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
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The city of Prague was ultimately liberated by the Soviets during the Prague Offensive. All of the German troops of Army Group Centre were killed, captured, or fell into the hands of the enemy after the capitulation.[2] The capitulation of Army Group Centre was nine days after the fall of Berlin and three days after Victory in Europe Day. Nickname: City of a Hundred Spires Motto: Praga Caput Rei publicae Location within the Czech Republic Coordinates: Country Czech Republic Region Capital City of Prague Founded 9th century - Mayor Pavel Bém Area - City 496 km² (191. ...
Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte in German) was created on 22 June 1941 when Army Group B was renamed Army Group Centre. ...
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The Battle
The Soviet assault on Prague crushed the last sizeable pocket of German military resistance in Europe. The Soviet assault on Prague was carried out by 1st (Ivan Konev), 2nd (Rodion Malinovsky), 4th Ukrainian Fronts (Andrei Yeremenko). As well as Soviet formations these Fronts included the Polish Second Army, the First and Fourth Romanian armies and the Czechoslovakian army I Corps. The Soviet Fronts totaled more than two-million troops. In order to participate in the Prague Offensive, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front did a forced march from south of Berlin just after they completed participating in the Battle of Berlin. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Marshal Ivan Konev Ivan Stepanovich Koniev (Russian Иван Степанович Конев) (December 28, 1897 – May 21, 1973), Soviet military commander, was born into a peasant family near Podosinovsky in central Russia (now in Kirov Oblast). ...
The Steppe Front was a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. ...
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Combatants Soviet Union Poland Germany Commanders Georgiy Zhukov Ivan Konev Konstantin Rokossovskiy Vasiliy Chuykov Adolf Hitler †Gotthard Heinrici Helmuth Reymann Ernst Kaether (one day) Helmuth Weidling # Karl Dönitz # Wilhelm Mohnke # Strength 2,500,000 soldiers, 6,250 tanks, 7,500 aircraft, 41,600 artillery pieces [1] 1,000,000...
This imposing force was opposed by at most 900,000 German troops of the First, Fourth, and Seventeenth panzer armies of Army Group Centre (Ferdinand Schörner). In addition to Army Group Centre, the Germans facing the Soviets around Prague included some corps-sized units of Army Group Ostmark (Lothar Rendulic). The First Panzer Army (German ) was a German tank army that fought during World War II. When formed the First Panzer Army was named Panzer Group Kleist (Panzergruppe Kleist) and was activated on November 16, 1940 with Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist in command. ...
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Ferdinand Schörner (December 5, 1892 - February 7, 1973) was a general and later Field Marshal in the German Wehrmacht during World War II. // Early life He was born in Munich, Bavaria. ...
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The assault crushed the last sizeable pocket of German military resistance which did not comply with the unconditional surrender of German forces on May 8, 1945 and it relieved the Czech partisans fighting in the Prague Uprising started on May 5, 1945 who were aided briefly by the Russian Liberation Army (former Soviet General Andrey Vlasov). This article chronicles the end of the European Theatre of World War II. On April 25, 1945 United States and Soviet troops linked-up, cutting Germany in two. ...
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The left flank of the 2nd Ukrainian Front met with troops of the US Third Army (George Patton) in the regions of České Budějovice and Písek, thus completing the encirclement. Later, 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts met with Americans in the regions of Karlovy Vary and Klatovy. Soviet troops entered Prague on May 9, 1945. Some remnants of Army Group Center continued resistance until May 11, (some sources say May 12).[3] The US Third Army was first activated as a formation during the First World War. ...
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Coordinates: Country Czech Republic Region Karlovy Vary District Karlovy Vary Founded around 1350 Area - city 59. ...
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Aftermath To honor the participants of the operation, the Soviet Union instituted the Medal for the Liberation of Prague.
Formations Involved
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The Polish Second Army (Polish: Druga Armia Wojska Polskiego, 2. ...
The Steppe Front was a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. ...
The Romanian First Army was a field army that fought during World War II. In August 1944, the Red Army entered Romania after driving back Army Group South from the region. ...
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The Southern Front was a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. ...
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German Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte in German) was one of three German army formations assigned to the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, code-named Operation Barbarossa. ...
Losses
Soviet - Personnel
- 11,997 irrecoverable
- 40,501 Wounded & Sick
- Total 52,498[1]
- Materiél[1]
- 373 Tanks and self-propelled guns
- 1,006 Artillery
- 80 Aircraft
German Army Group Centre surrendered, all either killed in action, wounded in action, or captured (~850,000).
See also Combatants Soviet Union Poland Germany Commanders Georgiy Zhukov Ivan Konev Konstantin Rokossovskiy Vasiliy Chuykov Adolf Hitler †Gotthard Heinrici Helmuth Reymann Ernst Kaether (one day) Helmuth Weidling # Karl Dönitz # Wilhelm Mohnke # Strength 2,500,000 soldiers, 6,250 tanks, 7,500 aircraft, 41,600 artillery pieces [1] 1,000,000...
The Vienna Offensive was launched by the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front against Vienna, Austria. ...
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During the Battle for Berlin, the Red Flag was raised over the Reichstag, May 1945. ...
References - Советская военная энциклопедия (Soviet Military Encyclopedia), vol. 6 (In Russian).
- The Soviet Military Encyclopedia, A-F: ISBN 0-8133-1429-1, G-O: ISBN 0-8133-1430-5, P-Z: ISBN 0-8133-1431-3
- Ziemke, E.F. Stalingrad to Berlin
- Glantz, D. & House, J. When Titan's Clashed
- Konev, I. Year of Victory
Footnotes - ^ a b c Glantz, David M., and Jonathan House. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. (Lawrence, Kansas: UP of Kansas, 1995)
- ^ Under the laws of war there is a distinction between those captured and those who "fall into the power" of the enemy after a mass capitulation. The 1929 Geneva Convention only covered thoses who were captured during the fighting not those who fell into the power of an enemy following a mass capitulation (See Disarmed Enemy Forces). Something explicitly change in the 1949 Geneva Convention
- ^ AJP Taylor (1975), Second Word War: An illustrated history p. 223. Taylor claim that Soviet troops enterd Prague on the May 12
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