The East Prussian offensive was a strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (World War II). It lasted...

Belorussian Front, which was pushing towards Berlin. During the East Prussian offensive, however, Rokossovsky was ordered to wheel directly north toward...

all but a fifteen-mile by fifty-mile strip of East Prussian territory. The Soviet East Prussian Offensive, commencing on 13 January, saw the 2nd Army driven...

Königsberg, also known as the Königsberg offensive, was one of the last operations of the East Prussian offensive during World War II. In four days of urban...

(shattered in the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive), Army Group Centre (similarly largely destroyed in the East Prussian Offensive), and a variety of new or ad hoc...

ancestral lands of the Baltic Old Prussians were enclosed within East Prussia. During the 13th century, the native Prussians were conquered by the crusading...

crushed as part of the subsequent Soviet East Prussian offensive in early 1945. The Soviet Belorussian offensive of June–August 1944 (commonly known as...

the East Prussian offensive had reached the Baltic coast of the Vistula delta by 24 January and so succeeded in isolating Army Group Centre in East Prussia...

was initiated due to fear of the Red Army advances during the East Prussian Offensive. Some parts of the evacuation were planned as a military necessity...

receive the Order of Glory. Shanina was killed in action during the East Prussian Offensive while shielding the severely wounded commander of an artillery...

Belorussian Offensive Operation, the Baltic Offensive Operation, and the East Prussian Offensive Operation. Although costly, the advance of the 3rd Belorussian...

only 21 km (13 mi) in a week. The offensive was postponed (what is sometimes called the First East Prussian Offensive or the Gumbinnen Operation) until...

their line of defense along the Narew, which they held until the East Prussian offensive of January 1945. This was by far the greatest Soviet victory in numerical...

Operation Bagration, the East Prussian Offensive, the East Pomeranian Offensive and the Berlin Offensive. During the East Prussian Offensive, the division captured...

romanized: Zemland). The East Prussian offensive, which commenced on January 13, 1945, had seen the Red Army clear German forces from much of East Prussia. The defenders...

along the Narew River, before taking part in the Vistula-Oder Offensive into Poland and East Prussia in January 1945, mostly as part of 53rd Rifle Corps...

Beginning in 1944 with the East Prussian offensive of Soviet troops, the German-speaking population was evacuated. The province of East Prussia ceased to exist...

Armee-Abteilung Kleffel 18 Armee December 1944 16th Army 18th Army Soviet East Prussian Offensive Battle of Königsberg Heiligenbeil pocket Commander in Chief 27...

Fortified Region 153rd Fortified Region 161st Fortified Region The East Prussian operation began on January 14, 1945. 2nd Belorussian Front made relatively...

so the 182nd went over to the defense on the border of East Prussia. When the winter offensive began the division was soon involved in the fighting for...

Second East Prussian Offensive – Soviet forces advance in East Prussia and besiege Königsberg. February 2 – February 24: Lower Silesian offensive February...

great offensives of World War II. As part of a massive attack by four Fronts on January 14, 1945, 2BF attacked East Prussia (East Prussian Offensive) and...

all the troops in East Prussia and West Prussia. After the loss of the cities of Danzig and Gotenhafen in the East Prussian Offensive the army had been...

offensive it reached the border of East Prussia and won a second decoration in the unsuccessful Gumbinnen-Goldap Operation. During the East Prussian Offensive...

summer offensive, Operation Bagration, and required complete rebuilding. As part of the reconstructed 4th Army, it faced the East Prussian Offensive during...

participating in Operation Suvorov, Operation Bagration and the East Prussian Offensive. Postwar, he became head of the Directorate of Combat Training...

part in the summer offensive in Belarus and later the abortive Gumbinnen-Goldap operation. In January, 1945 the division fought into East Prussia and assisted...

Soviets were not able to break the German East Prussian defences. In the course of the second East Prussian offensive, in interaction with other armies of...

soldiers in the province of East Prussia, although the Soviets simply bypassed the spit after the East Prussian Offensive was decisively concluded, training...

Front and participated in Operation Bagration, the East Prussian Offensive, the East Pomeranian Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin. Overall during the war...