Battle of Berlin

Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in World War II. Result: Destruction and capture of Berlin by the Russian army and the end of World War II in Europe.

The final Soviet offensive of World War II began at 4:00 a.m. on April 16, 1945, when 20,000 guns of Marshal Georgy Zhukov’s First Belorussian Front bombarded German positions thirty-eight miles east of Berlin along the river Oder. When Marshal Ivan Konev’s First Ukranian Front joined the attack a few hours later, Colonel General Gotthard Heinrici’s Army Group Vistula was confronted by 2.5...

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