![]() Wilhelm Keitel signs the German Unconditional Surrender Act The message of the Soviet radio about the surrender of Germany, broadcast several times on from 2 hours 10 minutes in the morning. Berest, hoisted the Victory Banner on the roof of the Reichstag building. Also, 2,108 guns and mortars and 917 combat aircraft were lost, but the main task of the operation was completely solved by the Soviet troops: they defeated 70 infantry, 12 tank and 11 motorized enemy divisions, captured about 480 thousand people, captured the capital of Germany and actually forced Germany to surrender.Įarly in the morning of May 1, 1945, during the assault on the Reichstag, Sergeant Mikhail Yegorov and Junior Sergeant Meliton Kantaria, under the leadership of Junior Lieutenant A.P. This also led to high losses: in two weeks of fighting, the Red Army lost a third of the tanks and self-propelled guns participating in the Berlin operation, which amounted to 1997 units. In urban conditions, they could not use all their advantages and often became a convenient target for the anti-tank weapons of the Germans. Another 8892 people were lost by the Polish troops, of which 2825 people were irretrievably lost.ĭuring the breakthrough of the German defense, including for battles in the city, tanks were widely used. That is, more than 15,000 soldiers and officers were out of action per day. The Berlin garrison itself numbered about 200,000 people.ĭuring the Berlin operation, the Red Army irrevocably lost 78,291 people and 274,184 people were sanitary losses. Three defensive rings were created around Berlin, more than 400 reinforced concrete long-term firing points with garrisons of up to a thousand people were built inside the city. Berlin itself was also turned into the strongest fortified area and prepared for street fighting…. This group numbered about a million people, 1,500 tanks, 10,400 guns and mortars, 3,300 combat aircraft. On the approaches to Berlin and in the city itself, a grouping of troops was concentrated, which had 62 divisions (including 48 infantry, 4 tank and 10 motorized), 37 separate infantry regiments and about 100 separate infantry battalions, as well as a significant number of artillery units and divisions. German troops took up defenses along the western banks of the Oder and Neisse rivers. In total, more than 2 million soldiers and officers, 6,250 tanks and self-propelled guns, 41,600 guns and mortars, and 7,500 aircraft took part in the operation. The 1st and 2nd armies of the Polish Army that took part in the operation numbered 10 infantry and 1 tank division, as well as 1 separate cavalry brigade, totaling 155,900 people. By the beginning of the operation, Soviet troops numbered 149 rifle and 12 cavalry divisions, 13 tank and 7 mechanized corps, 15 separate tank and self-propelled brigades with a total number of more than 1,900,000 people. In April 1945, the Red Army came closer to Berlin. The last days of the Second World War Berlin offensive operation ![]() In the 2010s, processions with portraits of veterans – the ” Immortal Regiment”, became widespread. On Victory Day, military parades and festive fireworks are held in many cities of Russia, an organized procession to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with a wreath-laying ceremony is held in Moscow, and festive processions and fireworks are held in large cities. Victory Day – a holiday of the victory of the Red Army and the Soviet people over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941 – 1945. Soviet WW2 Veteran During Victory Day MAY 9- Victory Day holiday
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