The Soviets advance to the Oder

I will end the World War 2 topic tomorrow..With the end of the last topic which is "The German Collapse",I will customize my blog back into the normal daily blog,no more history and I will post what i'm going to do and my life maybe there will be some fact but not in a large scale of writing,it will be like "History On This Day" or something like that la..Ok,let us proceed..

a)Vistula-Oder Offensive

1.At the end of 1944,the Germans still held the Western Poland and their front still 200 miles east..

2.The Germans had checked the Soviet's summer offensive and established a firm line along the Narew and Vistula Rivers southward to Carpathians and in October they repelled the Red Army's attempt to thrust into the East Prussia..

3.Soviets troops moving up to the Eastern Balkan,pushing around through Hungary and Yugoslavia in a vast flanking movement..

4.Germans intelligence reported that some 225 Soviet infantry division plus with 22 armored division had been identified on the front between Baltic and Carphatians..

5.Hitler refused to transferred his troops to the Eastern Front but willing to stop the Allies at Ardeness..

6.At that time,he also refused to evacuate the German forces which was isolated in Courland,the Baltic seacoast..

7.The result,Guderian was left with a reserve of 12 armored division to backup the 50 weak infantry division..

8.Soviet's Vistula-Oder Offensive started on 12th January 1945 when Konev's army assaulted the German front at the Southern Poland..

9.Zhukov's army in the center of the front bounded from bridgehead near Warsaw..

10.On 14th January 1945,Rokovsky's army joined the offensive striking from Narew River,north of Warsaw and covered flank approach to East Prussia..

11.17th January 1945,Warsaw was captured by Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front.Konev's spearhead reached Silesia and crossed Oder River and captured Breslau and thus cut off Silesia's important mineral resources from Germans.

12.Zhukov 1st Belorussian front driving forward from Warsaw past Poznaj,Bydgosoz and Toruj to the Gulf Of Danzig.

13.25 German's divisions in the East Prussia has been cutting off by 2 Soviets spearhead..

14.Hitler created new army groups under the command of SS Gen Heinrich Himmler.Zhukov mechanized his troops on 31st January 1945 and crossed the lower Oder(40 miles from Berlin)..

15.Konev's Ukranian front reached Sommerfield(80 miles from Berlin) on Fenruary 13th 1945 and crossed Neisse River two days later..

16.The Americans and British had crossed Rhine while the Soviets took Budapest on 13th February 1945..

Thats all for today,tomorrow will be the end of World War 2..hopefully..