Lower Silesian offensive operation (1945)

Lower Silesian offensive operation (1945) © information agency "RIA Novosti" / Yegorov Ye. Lower Silesian operation – the offensive operation performed on February 8-24, 1945 during the Great Patriotic War by armies of the 1st Ukrainian front (the commander – the Marshal Soviet Union Konev Yvan) with the purpose to crush lower Silesian group of the opponent, to come to a boundary of the Naas River and to reach an advantageous position for the subsequent approach on the Berlin, Dresden and Prague directions. At the end of January, 1945 of army of the 1st Ukrainian front as a result of Hanging and Oder operation left in 500-kilometer...