Breslau as a "German Brest" 1945 of the year

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Four days later the battles for Berlin were over, and the Red Army rushed to help the rebellious Prague, and in the east of Germany volleys of artillery continued to rumble — the German garrison of the fortress city of Breslau did not surrender.

Now this city is in Poland and is called Wroclaw. Few people know that in 1945 Breslau became a real “German Brest”. There, the Germans fought almost three months to the last; they, like the Russians in the summer of 1941, continued to hope for help from Berlin, for a “miracle weapon”, On a breakthrough, but, alas, they did not know that Germany had already fallen, that the victorious Wehrmacht was no more, and their omnipotent Führer was lying half-burnt in a hole near his Office, and that all the sacrifices they had suffered would be in vain.

Breslau as a "German Brest" 1945 of the year
Fighters of the 309 th “Piryatinskaya” rifle division of the division foreman Andrei Semenovich Proznyuk in street battles for Breslau


It is known that during World War II, Breslau was an important industrial center for the German military machine. On its territory there were several factories, forced workers and concentration camps.

It is also interesting that until the last months of the war, Breslau, like Dresden, was not destroyed at all, since the city was beyond the reach of the Allied bombers and even in connection with this received the nickname “Reich bombardment”. In this connection, many of the German government institutions were then transferred to Breslau. The first air raid this city experienced only in the fall of 1944, when Soviet troops reached the Vistula coast in central Poland. However, work on the creation of urban fortifications and in general to prepare Breslau for defense began in June 1944. It was then that two defensive belts were erected around the city and warehouses for supplies and ammunition were built. The work was mainly carried out with the involvement of labor from labor camps, volunteers, women, old people and children (http://www.achtungpanzer.eu/breslau.php).

Nature itself allowed the Germans to create an impregnable fortress from Breslau, since the entire southeastern, eastern and northern sides of the city had natural tank-inaccessible barriers such as the Weide river, the Oder river canals, the Ole river with wide floodplains. And the north side was generally wetland or viscous soil, which did not allow the Soviet tanks massively attack the suburbs of Breslau from this direction.

The gunners of one of the 6 Army Infantry Divisions are firing 45-mm 53-K guns at enemy strongholds on the streets of Breslau. 1-th Ukrainian Front


These advantages were used by the Germans to create a solid defense, especially in anti-tank terms. Stone buildings, gardens and parks made it possible to secretly place fire weapons, a good disguise from ground and aerial surveillance. The enemy in advance blocked the roads with ditches and barricades, mined possible passages, made rubble and kept them under targeted artillery fire.

But the most important thing that contributed to the fierce and long defense of Breslau was not his well-designed and powerful fortifications, but the German troops themselves, who defended the city, their high fighting spirit. Yes, it was known that among the German soldiers and volunteers who defended the city, there was active Nazi propaganda, but it did not play a major role in defensive battles, the Germans in Breslau simply had nothing to lose, they were really cornered, because the soldiers of the Wehrmacht, the SS troops and the detachments of the Volkssturm, it was their hometown, and as you know, they would fight for their home until the end.

It is known from German sources that the “garrison of the fortress” which for three months held Breslau in place was 35 000 Wehrmacht employees and 10 thousands called in Volkssturm. In total, it included the newly formed 609 Infantry Division, parts of the 269 Infantry Division, training and reserve units, a temporary SS regiment, 38 Volkssturm battalions (400 each), units of the Hitler Youth, police, ground Luftwaffe units and remnants parts broken in battles. The defenders had 32 artillery batteries made up of supposedly outdated German and also captured Soviet, Polish, Yugoslav and Italian guns. The garrison allegedly did not have any tank divisions, with the exception of a company of 15 self-propelled guns of various types.

Soviet sources give a slightly different, but more detailed composition of the enemy grouping, as in the city of Breslau, according to the Soviet military intelligence, the following enemy grouping was surrounded: part of the 20 Panzer Division. 236-th brigade of assault guns, consolidated tank spetsroty "Breslau". artillery and anti-aircraft units, as well as 38 battalions of the Volkssturm. According to the testimony of prisoners in the first line of defense, the enemy had: 25710 people. 1443 machine gun, 1885 faust cartridges, 101 mortar. 68 guns of different calibers, about 20 tanks and SPG. In total, 30980 man defended the city with the support of 1645 machine guns, 2335 faustpatron, 174 mortar. 124 guns of different calibers, 50 tanks and self-propelled guns (http://www.2history.ru/4145-shturm-goroda-breslau-krasnojj-armiejj-v-1945.html).

Sergeant V. sappers are brainstorming with crawling boxes of explosives to blow up the house, turned by the enemy into a fortified point. From the windows of the house behind them cover machine gunners


At first, the garrison was supplied by air and even received a replenishment in the form of two battalions of paratroopers.

The High Command of the Wehrmacht even twice tried to unlock Breslau, however, realizing all the inertness of these actions waved on the besieged hand and they thus remained defended in splendid isolation, they simply did not know that everything was over, that the Third Reich was actually living out its last weeks, or even days.

The 6-i and 5-i Guards Armies with the support of the 7-i and 4-th Guards Tank corps received this fortress city.

It was these compounds that began preparations for a planned assault on the city, and on February 16 began the assault itself. However, the hostilities proceeded unevenly, then they were actively conducted, then they died down, this is when our troops carried out a regrouping, replenished with manpower and ammunition and again struck now in a new direction.

At the beginning, Breslau was stormed from all sides, then after blocking and full encirclement, the battles in the city turned around in separate directions, directly in the city blocks, for each house and floor.

The Germans built their defense in such a way that on the side from which our troops attacked, the streets and lanes of Breslau allowed the Soviet command to use its numerous tanks and self-propelled guns on a strictly limited basis, only in small groups of 2-3 machines and no more, and those with large labor could maneuver in narrow quarters. In addition to this, from all sides behind our armored vehicles, the German "foustnik" staged a real hunt. Only during the first two weeks of the fighting, the Red Army troops lost on the streets of Breslau over 160 tanks and SPG.

The Red Army soldier inspects the quarters of the German city of Breslau, against the background of the church of Johannes Kirche (Johannes Kirche)


On the other hand, Breslau, where German troops were directly defending, its suburbs had a good network of excellent roads, which allowed the city’s defense command to transfer a few German tanks and self-propelled guns from one "problem" area to another. The enemy’s armored vehicles were in the personal reserve of the garrison commandant and in small groups (1-2 of the tank, 1-3 SAU) acted on more active defense sectors, supporting infantry with fire and repelling the attacks of Soviet tanks.

During the first street battles that unfolded, it became clear to the Soviet command that it was impossible for Breslau to take it, that it was necessary to urgently change the very tactics of the assault, to bring up more powerful self-propelled guns, special engineer units and flamethrowing units to participate in the battles.

Soon, special assault battalions of engineering and sapper brigades (in Breslau, the 62-I separate engineering and sapper brigade) were engaged in fighting in the city, and the soldiers and commanders (1 and 2-th battalion of each brigade) were specially prepared for fighting in the city and taking powerful long-term fortifications of the enemy.

The personnel of these units had protective metal shells, POX flamethrowers, portable machine tools for launching PC projectiles and trophy faustpatrons, and most importantly, was well acquainted with the skills of a subversive business. These were real pros of the war, past more than one assault. Additionally, the troops involved in the assault were reinforced by ISU-152 from the heavy self-propelled artillery regiments.

Column on the march during the retreat of German troops from Breslau. Ahead, the Sd.Kfz 10 tractor tows an 75-mm PaK 40 anti-tank gun


Now, in order to avoid waste in vain, tanks and self-propelled guns changed their firing positions only when all the buildings, floors, basements and attics were “cleaned” by our infantry from the enemy’s “foustists”. These sweeps were carried out by assault groups using all forces and equipment, basements and buildings where the enemy's subunits were located were undermined with explosives, bombarded with grenades, burned with flamethrowers, most Germans showed themselves to be brave opponents, even in the most hopeless situations they preferred to die in battle than surrender.

It is interesting to use by Soviet troops during the fighting on the streets of Breslau tanks and self-propelled guns. Where they often played the role of a ram that makes passages in fences and barricades. Our armored vehicles destroyed the solid brick walls of houses and fences with fire of their guns, enabling the infantrymen and artillerymen to penetrate the attacked objects and conduct close combat with the enemy.

But most of all our tankers were surprised; it was they who invented an original way of taking away debris and barricades with the help of river anchors. The tank and the ACS, having a requisitioned cable with an anchor in the kit, under the cover of another combat vehicle or arthorudia, were approaching the rubble. Sappers attacked the anchor for the logs or parallel bars of the dam, the tank reversed and pulled the barricade away. The anchor returned to the place, aboard the combat vehicle. (Http://ww2history.ru/4145-shturm-goroda-breslau-krasnojj-armiejj-v-1945.html)

From combat reports it is known that as a result of only one month of fighting during the assault on Breslau, the 6 armored and self-propelled artillery units inflicted the following losses on the enemy: tanks destroyed - 2, guns of various calibers - 36, mortars - 22, machine guns - 82, manual machine guns - 210, pillboxes and billets - 7, enemy soldiers and officers -3750 people. Captured: 3 guns, 6 mortars, 5 heavy machine guns, 3 motorcycle, 52 bike. Captured 123 person.

The bodies of German soldiers killed in the melee on the streets of the city of Breslau. In the distance, Soviet fighters from parts of the 1 of the Ukrainian Front


During the same month of fighting, ONLY the tank and self-propelled units that make up the 6 Army suffered the following losses. The enemy has burnt 5 tanks EC-2, 6 T-34, 3 SU-122, one ISU-152. 3 ISU-152, 7 IS-2 was destroyed. Undermined by mines: 4 T-34 and 2 SU-122. The total losses of the hardware were: 3 ISU-152. 13 IS-2,6 T-34. 3 SU-122. as well as 154 of killed and wounded personnel (http://wwxnumxhistory.ru/xnumx-shturm-goroda-breslau-krasnojjarmimjj-v-2.html).

Active fighting in Breslau took place almost continuously from 18 February to 1 in May 1945, and only 30 in April, waiting for the end of the war, the Soviet troops went over to the defensive mainly in the southern and western parts of the city of Breslau. The rest of the city remained in the hands of the Germans.

4 May, Breslau's mastermind, Gauleiter Hanke, was evacuated from the city by plane, he was probably in a hurry to take up the post of SS Reichsführer, instead of Himmler, who had been removed. However, he was clearly unlucky; a week later he went missing in the Prague area. 6 May Commandant Breslau General Neuhoff signed the act of surrender. According to some data, the losses in the battles for Breslau in the manpower of the Wehrmacht were 7.000 people, the losses of the Red Army - 9.000 people. The losses of Soviet tanks and self-propelled guns amounted to about 200 units, of which 70%, in the first 2 weeks of fighting. More than 2 / 3 urban buildings were destroyed. Civilian casualties were about 80.000 people, including Volkssturm and Hitler Youth units (http://armor.kiev.ua/Battle/WWII/breslau/)

According to other sources, about 6000 soldiers and officers and 170000 civilians were killed on the German side. 45000 German soldiers were captured. The German losses were in fact even higher, since many of the supply and evacuation planes were shot down, and many of the wounded did not fly over the front lines. The Soviet side lost more than 8000 people killed (including about 800 officers) (http://www.achtungpanzer.eu/breslau.php).
It is known from modern Polish sources that 7 thousand Soviet soldiers were buried in the military cemetery of the city of Wroclaw.

Soviet soldiers firing from a PTRS-41 (Simonov's anti-tank rifle, model 1941, of the year) on Breslau Street. Author's title: “Pteerovs sergeant L. Myasnikov and A. Kryukov are firing”


The commander of the fortress, General Nyhof himself, cited several different figures in his memoirs. According to him, about 50 thousands of Wehrmacht soldiers and Volkshturmists took part in the defense of Breslau, of which 6 thousands were killed, and 29 thousands more were wounded. That is, the total losses of the German garrison amounted to 35 thousand people, which leaves about 58% of the total German group. If this figure is correct, then this is a very large proportion of military casualties in manpower. He estimated civilian casualties at 80 by a thousand people. When Nihof speaks of Soviet casualties, he comes from a number in 30 - 40 killed thousands, referring to Soviet sources that he does not name.

It is interesting that the Germans themselves still consider the expediency of the defense of Breslau controversial.

So for example, the famous historian, researcher of the Second World War, General Kurt von Tippelskirch in his "Stories World War II ”suggested that the defense of Breslau had a strategic meaning only in the first phase of the winter offensive of the Red Army 1945 of the year, that is, in January and February. At this point, the battles for Breslau could hold down the advancing Soviet divisions, which, in turn, could allow the German command to create a new front line, which would stretch from Lower Silesia to the Sudeten foothills.

In any case, the Germans managed to forge Breslau's defenses around the Soviet divisions 12, 7 of which were at the front, and 5 was used as a operational reserve. However, this in general did not affect the overall situation on the Eastern Front, as, for example, the actions of the Soviet troops in the summer and autumn of 1942 could affect the same situation. in the battle for Voronezh, when these actions in general contributed to a change in the situation in the battle for Stalingrad in favor of the Red Army.

Soviet machine gunners in a ruined house on the street Der SA Strasse (Strasse der SA), in the German city of Breslau, Silesia. The soldiers cover the sappers sergeant V. Brain, who are preparing to demolish the house, turned by the enemy into a fortified point. Sappers are visible in the right window opening, the soldiers are crawling to drag boxes of explosives. On the left are the remains of a destroyed barricade.

122-mm howitzer M-30 Senior Sergeant G.E. Makeeva on Gutenberg Strasse (Gutenberg)


The mountain of trophy equipment on Breslau street after the city surrendered to Soviet troops: German helmets, gas masks, ammunition boxes


Captain A.V. fighters Kulagin in the house repulsed by the enemy in Breslau. 1-th Ukrainian Front


Soldiers of the assault battalion from the part of Colonel Zalichansky, on the ruins of the tram depot


Soviet soldiers hand out bread


Tank crew of guard lieutenant B.I. Degtyareva on vacation. Tower shooter B.V. Kalyakin plays classical music to his crew, and a mechanic-driver A. I. Kozeikin stands next to him. 1-th Ukrainian Front, 87-th Guards Heavy Tank Regiment, Breslau. Author's name of the photo - “Musical moment”
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  1. +15
    3 September 2012 10: 20
    the faces of the war are terrible and the philanthropy of the Russian soldier is encouraging ........... well done that they remained people even in hell
    1. +9
      3 September 2012 14: 15
      My great-grandfather finished the war there, as a major tanker, the "Battle Red Banner" was given for Breslau. the meat grinder was still there. Honor and glory to the heroes !!!
      1. DERWISH
        0
        4 September 2012 01: 06
        Thank you very much to the author for paying attention to the city that my ancestors founded! My last name is Breslavsky and ETERNAL MEMORY OF WAR HEROES!
    2. 0
      4 September 2012 07: 48
      the Americans would not have bombed the whole city into rubble without bothering .... but they would have cost minimal losses for their part ...
  2. +9
    3 September 2012 11: 00
    Well done ancestors turned such a stubborn beast neck
    in the last photo, very young guys would be learning how to feel girls
    rather than smearing the fascists with caterpillars
    1. DYMITRY
      +11
      3 September 2012 11: 42
      The Germans have always been excellent warriors, the more valuable our victory !!!
  3. Alejandro
    +17
    3 September 2012 11: 08
    My grandfather, who went through the entire war, had military awards, he did not like the Germans very much. However, when he watched films, or heard stories in which the Nazis were represented as such naive fools, he was very angry. He then knew what enemy the Soviet people defeated.
    1. sapulid
      +13
      3 September 2012 12: 23
      Both of my grandfathers, one of whom was German, have fought in the ranks of the Red Army since 1941. Both had orders and medals. The one who, a German, came to Berlin. After the Victory, he was shot on a denunciation of a political leader .... He wrote that his grandfather had hidden his nationality in order to secretly help the Nazis. Damn, get from the shooter to the battalion commander, put the enemy inexorably and die after the Victory because of nationality ...
      If a person could be determined by his nationality, the world would be black and white.
      1. wax
        +7
        3 September 2012 13: 17
        It is a pity that such political leaders remained in high esteem and died their own deaths. As a Russian, I hate scoundrels, including scammers based on careers and so on, and there are even more Russians, for they have disgraced their own great people. And we still have not cleared this filth, unfortunately.
        1. Zynaps
          +3
          3 September 2012 22: 03
          Quote: Wax
          It is a pity that such political leaders remained in high esteem and died their own deaths.


          naive Chukchi young man. you believe in something ...
      2. Zynaps
        +3
        3 September 2012 22: 02
        Quote: sapulid
        The one who, a German, came to Berlin. After the Victory, he was shot at the denunciation of the political ....


        to be shot at a denunciation at the end of the war, being an order bearer and a well-deserved battalion commander ... lies from beginning to end. better admit that you didn’t hold your grandfather’s personal matter, but didn’t see it in your eyes and you only know from the Nanai tunes of people who were not involved. the denunciation was not a reason for arrest and execution. the investigation was necessarily carried out by the military prosecutor's office. the tribunal finally determined everything. to go through so many instances, not to find the support of fellow soldiers (and the commander of the unit, the political department, and even the head of the special department harnessed for a good man), and to be shot on trumped-up charges - this is a drive. at the beginning of the war they could screw up, but that already in Berlin ... 3.14zhezhy pure water.

        and naive children opened their mouths and poured pros for lies ...

        they did not touch anyone for their nationality. the best example is the hero of the defense of Sevastopol, the legendary commander of the coastal battery No. 30 in the village. Lyubimovka, Guard Major Georgy Aleksandrovich Alexander. German by nationality. was taken prisoner, in Simferopol "potato town" (prisoner of war camp) after torture was shot.
        1. Taratut
          -1
          4 September 2012 08: 49
          Quote: Zynaps
          for nationality did not touch anyone

          Even as touched.
          Chechens and Ingush were forbidden to write to the army, and later they were generally sent from the army to their relatives for settlement. And the order bearers, and the Communists - all.


          Quote: vozn_ser
          LIES!!!! My grandfather ran from captivity three times starting from Finnish and restored to the troops instantly

          Lucky your grandfather. But this does not mean that everyone was lucky.
          1. Zynaps
            +2
            5 September 2012 04: 49
            Quote: Taratut
            Chechens and Ingush were forbidden to write to the army, and later they were generally sent from the army to their relatives for settlement. And the order bearers, and the Communists - all.


            You know, I live among Crimean Tatars. and they didn’t have what you whistle here. those who fought in the partisans were not touched at all (there were whole Tatar villages in the mountainous Crimea). the warriors were offered a choice of residence (like Amet-Khan, whose maternal relatives distinguished themselves in the service of the Germans). the rest - for deportation. because it was for what, and during the war.

            you better indignate at the conclusion of the barbed wire of all the American and Canadian Japanese, who generally did not touch anyone with a finger. and they were not given money and equipment for the arrangement, but they took property - and for a thorn. since, will you furiously wave cowards?
        2. Suvorov000
          0
          4 September 2012 11: 42
          Well, yes, and when the commander of my grandfather tried to rape a German girl, his grandfather filled his face so he was denounced and his grandfather sat for five years
          1. Zynaps
            0
            5 September 2012 04: 51
            to start. Have you seen your grandfather's lawsuit? if not, the conversation is empty.
            1. Suvorov000
              0
              7 September 2012 10: 36
              They even wrote about this matter in the newspaper when they wrote an article about his grandfather in his city, so I’m responsible for the words, but how do I look at the SA rights activist and all her illegal actions are considered legitimate because we take revenge and revenge is terrible, only a question and what then we will be better than the same SS
        3. REPA1963
          0
          5 September 2012 00: 04
          Here he is the grandson of that political officer.
      3. vozn_ser
        +1
        3 September 2012 22: 11
        LIES!!!! My grandfather ran from captivity three times since Finnish and was restored to the troops instantly !!! So that the bottom is at the end of the war. Or you don’t do something. Or you are frankly lying !!! Respectfully!
        1. +1
          5 September 2012 08: 11
          I support ... My grandfathers were also captured, fled ... They were restored and one came to Berlin, the second to Prague ...
      4. REPA1963
        +1
        5 September 2012 00: 03
        The grandchildren of that political officer may be visiting this site. And your grandfather, SLAVA, like mine, didn’t get to Berlin, he died at 42 near Staraya Rusa.
        1. Zynaps
          0
          5 September 2012 04: 51
          Are you hinting at yourself, god?
    2. 0
      3 September 2012 22: 37
      I agree. Your enemy must be respected.
  4. +5
    3 September 2012 11: 55
    interesting photo 45-current at the end of the war.
    judging by the films about the war, they did not seem to exist, and this is a weapon, as they say, from "bell to bell."
    there were masters!
    1. borisst64
      +6
      3 September 2012 14: 01
      Quote: pinachet
      as if they were not


      This weapon was modernized during the war and successfully fought even with armored vehicles. Cheap, light, simple, first mate at the forefront.
      1. Kibb
        +1
        3 September 2012 14: 29
        Well, yes, it’s German, and the Germans didn’t really like it
        In this case, it is used as a battle weapon, and about modernization it’s to the M42, which didn’t work like that anymore.
      2. 0
        3 September 2012 21: 04
        45 mm gun arr. 1932 .year of production 1932-1937, 45-mm gun 53-K. 1937-1943 37354pcs, 45mm M-42 gun 1942-1945 10843pcs
        I know all this, I mean that people judging by the films think that they only fought on ZIS-3.
        1. Kibb
          0
          3 September 2012 22: 05
          Quote: pinachet
          45 mm gun arr. 1932 .year of production 1932-1937, 45-mm gun 53-K. 1937-1943 37354pcs, 45mm M-42 gun 1942-1945 10843pcs
          I know all this, I mean that people, judging by the films, think that they only fought on ZIS-3

          Well done, so what? Few people know
        2. +1
          5 September 2012 11: 22
          So, after all, photography explains why they fought? The calculations of 3 people are managed with Farewell Homeland. The cannons are used as battalion weapons.
  5. +3
    3 September 2012 13: 29
    Glorious victories were among our fathers and grandfathers. How will we glorify our Fatherland?
    1. +5
      3 September 2012 14: 42
      At least not betray their business. This will be a feat in our times.
    2. +1
      3 September 2012 17: 48
      who will spend more money in a casino laughing and if you seriously educate yourself and your children as patriots and kind, courageous people ...... and there you will already see ..... war, so war ... peace, so peace
  6. +4
    3 September 2012 13: 32
    Those who fight to the last, in any case, deserve memory, respect and honor. They are heroes. And we should remember not only Brest, Stalingrad and Leningrad.
  7. +1
    3 September 2012 15: 04
    The victory was given to us with considerable blood ... but the Nazis broke the ridge, as once the turnarians ridge the Mongols and the Swedes, the boom hopes that they will learn that it is better to be friends with the East ....
    1. Taratut
      -7
      3 September 2012 15: 14
      "Soviet sources give a slightly different, but more detailed composition of the enemy grouping."
      Well, Soviet sources .... This is something with something.
      When Paulus heard how many tanks were captured by the RKK near Stalingrad, he was surprised to ask his chief of staff - where did we get so much?
      He was surprised no less.
      1. 0
        3 September 2012 15: 29
        My grandfather said that in the 44th department a tiger burned down, so then three whole ash were drawn from this tiger, it turns out that he himself and the tank crews also added artillerymen, and this quite often happened especially during the offensive ... there was no time in such trifles, it was necessary to drive the German further west.
      2. +4
        3 September 2012 15: 33
        They lie all, and our sources, both German, and still today. All this nonsense is called the information war, so do not judge strictly.
        1. Zynaps
          0
          3 September 2012 21: 47
          in fact, after the war there was an assessment of German reports. The Red Army, all of its personnel and equipment, the Germans killed on paper five times.

          in fact, conducting an information war in internal documents is fraught. for replenishment of units with troops, weapons, ammunition, transport, boiler, clothing and cash allowance depends on reports from the front line. for postscripts and undersigned, it was possible not only to take a walk in the penal battalion, but also to brush the forehead with zelenka.
      3. Zynaps
        0
        3 September 2012 21: 40
        Quote: Taratut
        Well, Soviet sources .... This is something with something.


        ... only for stoned rhizunoids. normal historians from different countries use the data of Soviet historiography and do not buzz. or buzz, but on business, and not like Radio Liberty. there are inconsistencies in any documents and materials. it is only from the couch that strategists are not mistaken. otherwise, one must think, the West does not screw up. if the quality Glanz has absolutely moronic places in his works ...

        Quote: Taratut
        When Paulus heard how many tanks were captured by the RKK near Stalingrad, he was surprised to ask his chief of staff - where did we get so much?


        Paulus, with his chief of staff, apparently served his brains in the basement of the department store and was not aware that the Germans made repeated attempts to unlock his army from the outside. hence the discrepancy in the number of armored vehicles captured. but this is if you are not 3.14zd, and this is a probability tending to unity.
        1. Taratut
          0
          4 September 2012 08: 50
          Give examples of blatant nonsense?
          1. dmb
            0
            4 September 2012 14: 38
            I can give an example of your nonsense. I personally know the Chechens and Ingush who reached the end of the war in the army.
          2. Zynaps
            0
            5 September 2012 04: 53
            follow yourself, hunter for someone else's nonsense.
      4. freedom
        +1
        3 September 2012 23: 19
        If you could stop even one, then stinking for a kilometer with your pants, in all seriousness, stuttering, argued that you repeated the feat of Panfilovtsev. Not for you to judge those times. You’re afraid of a scooter, but you’re climbing all the same.
        1. Taratut
          0
          4 September 2012 08: 51
          How many tanks did you personally stop?
          1. Zynaps
            0
            5 September 2012 04: 52
            answer for yourself first.
  8. loc.bejenari
    -3
    3 September 2012 15: 47
    and the reason for the Germans' resilience was that there was simply nowhere to go after ours arranged in East Prussia and the Reich districts that were supposed to move to Poland
    the Germans understood that they didn’t shine — in the best case, penal servitude in Siberia (by the way, this happened — the Germans worked with us right up to 53 years)
    so they fought with the stubbornness of people cornered
    1. +5
      3 September 2012 16: 19
      They worked just enough to restore what they destroyed. And judging by your words, I understand that it was easier for them to die than to work. Some kind of one-sided and lazy you get the Germans.
    2. +10
      3 September 2012 16: 47
      And they were very afraid of revenge after what we had done.
    3. 0
      3 September 2012 21: 07
      so they fought with the stubbornness of people cornered

      they drove themselves into a corner!
    4. Insurgent
      0
      3 September 2012 22: 17
      The little men taught a great sorrow to the peoples of the USSR, but all of Europe that they should stroke our headings, who lost Simei and you must be a Ukrainian Bandera so it’s not like that
    5. freedom
      0
      3 September 2012 23: 21
      To this end, they must still send their people to work.
  9. Alejandro
    +1
    3 September 2012 16: 23
    sapulid. Unfortunately, the scoundrels were then and there are now. Take at least some policemen who torture prisoners and sent to jail innocent people. In the late 90s, one friend broke the ribs in the police - they wanted to admit that he did not commit. And if I could not stand it, I would already be sitting.
  10. +4
    3 September 2012 17: 52
    How much is written, rewritten: there are only two COUNTRIES where there are WARS (we will not consider SS bastards and their likeness).
  11. Dovmont
    +2
    3 September 2012 19: 58
    The enemy was strong, brave and resistant. The greater the victory of our people over him !!!
    1. Valera
      0
      8 September 2012 21: 57
      Well said! How few pictures about the fighting in Breslau! And I still want to find my brother among the soldiers ... From the award sheet in my own words: ml. lieutenant, platoon commander of the 3rd mortar company 957 pages of the regiment 309 pages of the Piryatinsky division. Born in 1925. In the fighting since August 1941. Three wounds. In the battles for quarter 541 in the city of Breslau, a platoon under his command repelled two strong counterattacks of the enemy, destroyed three enemy machine-gun points and up to 30 Nazis ... For the entire period of hostilities in the mountains. Breslau skillfully commanded a platoon, inflicting heavy losses in manpower and equipment of the enemy. On the proposal of the regiment commander of May 8, 45, the division commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards. Colonel Leo by order of May 9, 45th awarded his brother the Order of the Red Star. Brother died six months after the Victory. So ... the boy went to war ... And we live. Thanks to the soldiers of the Soviet Army for everything. And for the exploits in Breslau.
  12. Marxman
    0
    3 September 2012 20: 41
    borisst64,
    She had a nickname- "Goodbye Homeland"
  13. Tyumen
    +4
    3 September 2012 21: 33
    Germans are tough fighters, but you can't compare honest
    Soviet hard worker defending his home and life
    their loved ones, with a rat cornered.
    1. Zynaps
      +1
      3 September 2012 22: 19
      rather, it is incorrect to compare Breslau with the Brest Fortress. for the defenders in the fortress did not have heavy weapons and panzerfausts, and were also cut off from the water. Well, the fate of the defense participants from different sides has developed very differently.
      1. Tyumen
        0
        3 September 2012 22: 53
        But am I not talking about that?
  14. 0
    3 September 2012 21: 34
    “From German sources it is known that the“ garrison of the fortress ”which held Breslau for three months consisted of 35 Wehrmacht employees and 000 called up to Volkssturm ...
    Soviet sources give a slightly different ... composition of the enemy group ... 30980 people ...
    According to other sources, about 6000 soldiers and officers were killed on the German side ... 45000 German soldiers were taken prisoner. German casualties were actually even higher, as many supply and evacuation planes were shot down and many of the wounded never flew over the front lines. "
    If you compare the numbers, it does not fit a little, from 6000 to 21000 does not match ...
    It seems that such articles should contain verified figures obtained from the most reliable sources. And moderators, in my opinion, need to check the articles, including for grammatical errors.
    1. +1
      3 September 2012 22: 31
      Quote: Strategia
      It seems that articles of this kind should contain verified figures obtained from the most reliable sources.


      In general, this is just a brief article of a blogger, his personal opinion based on open materials, and not a scientific work-study involving archives and professional historians. Links for losses are given from different sources, of course they vary.
      1. 0
        4 September 2012 21: 54
        And then someone will refer to this article, and the confusion will intensify. A blogger or not a blogger, what's the difference? You post information, be responsible for reliability. Moreover, the sources are not named!
  15. +1
    3 September 2012 21: 37
    A worthy victory over a strong opponent! Glory to our soldiers and eternal memory of the fallen!
    Descendants are not worthy of ancestors. Alas...
  16. Insurgent
    0
    3 September 2012 21: 53
    a breakthrough, but, alas, they did not know that Germany had already fallen. What does it mean, alas, that the author of the Fritz supports him so that there are more victims in the red army?
  17. ahtung: partizan
    +1
    3 September 2012 23: 34
    I have several remarks towards the author of this publication. First, how can you compare the Germans defending in Breslau with the defenders of the Brest Fortress, even if according to the data given in the article, "45 German soldiers were taken prisoner" (I will specify - armed! And the defenders of the Brest Fortress took the weapons of the killed enemy in order to continue the defense). Secondly, I don't even know whether to thank the author or not for the "staged" photographs. Example: (please pay attention!) Fire from small arms is NOT conducted ANYWHERE, and in the case of sappers, 000 angles are shown - one from the square where sappers with explosives crawl across the OPEN AREA and the other from the window of the cover group, while the sappers are ON ONE PLACE IN THE SAME POSITIONS as in the first picture. And thirdly, the Breslau garrison surrendered on May 2 and on May 6 the "Act of unconditional surrender of the German armed forces" was signed, so the author's tearful enthusiasm about the German Ubermens is slightly exaggerated. Those who wish to know the truth from reliable sources and not from the creators of the spreading cranberries "Agitprop" I can advise http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osada_Breslau
  18. Sibiryakus orthodoxy
    +2
    4 September 2012 08: 53
    An excellent article, without unnecessary pathos, citing various sources, both German and Soviet, is illustrated with photographs.
    In Breslau there really was a real, furious massacre, and it was the stubbornness of the opposing sides that the defense of Breslau was somewhat similar to the defense of Brest.
    However, the outcome of the battle clearly showed who in 1945 was the master of the world and Europe. There is a feeling that in 1945 the Red Army would break any army in the world ....
  19. +2
    4 September 2012 10: 19
    For me personally, no matter how much they admire the Germans, they generally remain nonhumans (naturally, the Germans of the Great Patriotic War model). Because of them, my grandfather and grandmother (on the mother’s side) remained orphans at 6-7 years old, there was a terrible famine, people were dying families, this is a horror that we cannot imagine. All the brothers of the grandmother went to the front and none of them returned. The entire population of our country at least undermined their health, suffered psychological trauma (remember how our grandparents collected crumbs from the table after eating? Did flour, buckwheat and semolina always be stored in barns for a rainy day?), And many of the best people died. This is what kind of endurance is needed and humanity in order not to cut out the entire male population since the Hitler Youth, despite the fact that your family was tortured, your house burned down? So I despise them and their leader !!! I will never admire them, they died so they need !!!
    1. 0
      4 September 2012 10: 54
      Totally agree with you!!!! I also wonder at the restraint of our Red Army !!!!!
      ALL THESE FASCIST CREATIVES SERVED PUNISHMENTS !!!!!
  20. Jafar. 79
    +1
    4 September 2012 12: 19
    Courage must be respected on any side !!
    1. -1
      4 September 2012 19: 11
      I agree, courage and heroism are valuable in themselves, this must be respected.
    2. Lech e-mine
      +1
      5 September 2012 09: 04
      aha - the German soldaten steadfastly fighting the fierce Russian frosts and the Bolshevik hordes, courageously hung and shot Russian subhumans in RUSSIA, including women and children.
      1. -1
        5 September 2012 20: 02
        Well, what are you fooling around? If only it were, then the war would not have lasted more than one year.
  21. +3
    4 September 2012 15: 40
    After reading the article, thanks to the author for the reminder, the courage of the Soviet soldier was unparalleled, because the last battle he was not "the most difficult", but the most terrible. No one wants to die, and even when victory is near, all the more and given this circumstance, one cannot help bowing his head before the military feat of people who fulfilled it to the end! As for the resistance of the Germans, all the same, more of them surrendered than they died, so even by this indicator this is not the Brest Fortress. In addition, in the Brest Fortress, the resistance did not have a general command and was conducted by scattered battle groups and often by individual soldiers. In Breslau, the Germans fought in an organized and organized way, and surrendered ... It is difficult now to say for sure what led them to a greater extent, loyalty to the oath, hatred of the enemy, expectation of a miracle or fear of captivity, but in the defense of the Brest Fortress and the city of Breslau, only a common word "defense".
    1. -1
      4 September 2012 19: 03
      So surrendered after the fall of Berlin, the death of the Fuhrer already.
  22. Stary oper
    +2
    4 September 2012 18: 35
    An excellent and necessary article on the little-known facts of the Great Patriotic War. It is correctly shown that the Germans also showed fierce resistance. I happened to be in Wroclaw many times in childhood (the first half of the 60s) and play with the guys in the ruins of houses (naturally in the war), which were still in the very center of the city on ul. Dvortsova (Vokzalnaya in Russian). Each time he visited the cemetery of Soviet officers, which in those days was well-groomed. When in 2001, after a long break, I happened to come to Wroclaw again, I was horrified by the desolation that prevailed there. Paths overgrown with grass, torn from some gravestones of a photograph ... But our losses were so great because the Soviet troops tried to minimize the destruction of the historical part of the city. Here is an example. The Germans removed the dome from one of the churches and set up a firing position at the top. So, in order not to destroy it, ours refused to shell the church and stormed it only with infantry. And the example with the cemetery shows how easy it is to set up one people against another, despite the fact that the USSR saved the Poles from destruction
  23. +2
    4 September 2012 19: 01
    "When Nihof talks about Soviet losses, he proceeds from the figure of 30-40 thousand killed, referring to Soviet sources, which he does not name."

    Yeah, in total, total losses should be 150-200 thousand, which significantly exceeds the number of personnel of those 12 of our divisions that fought near Breslau, well done, Niehof.

    In general, the German calculation appeared to be correct, because with its staunch defense, Breslau pinned down a large Soviet grouping, which could not be involved in other directions, just as it was during Operation Ring to storm and destroy the surrounded German grouping in the Stalingrad area.
    I consider the stubborn assault on Breslau to be an operational mistake of our command, it was necessary to take up defenses around the city with smaller forces, leaving the Germans either to break through the defenses or to be a self-guarded prisoner of war camp. This is approximately how the Soviet command did with the encircled units of Army Group North on the Kurland Peninsula.
    1. REPA1963
      0
      5 September 2012 00: 12
      It’s easy for you to speak, but they demanded from Moscow quickly.
      1. Zynaps
        0
        5 September 2012 04: 54
        for the bazaar you’ll answer that you demanded quickly?
        1. -1
          5 September 2012 20: 05
          Well, by the way, yes. Politically, a quick and guaranteed major victory was required. Therefore, further offensive operations, which promised the destruction of the entire southern wing of the German troops, preferred the destruction of the already encircled 6th Army.
  24. 0
    8 September 2012 23: 03
    Yes, they all bite to the last ... a terrible war ...
  25. 0
    11 September 2012 18: 57
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  26. 0
    25 June 2016 21: 52
    my grandfather of the guard, Red Army soldier Aleksey Tikhonovich, as part of the 23rd Guards Mortar Regiment, participated in the fighting to block and eliminate the encircled enemy group in the Breslau area

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