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Breslau 1945 - Hitler's Final Fortress in Silesia

Breslau 1945 - Hitler's Final Fortress in Silesia With Richard Hargreaves Part of our 1945 series    • 1945   Part of our ongoing Eastern Front series on WW2TV    / playlist   The Red Army (Soviet Forces) in WWII    • The Red Army (Soviet Forces) in WWII   Poland in WW2    • Poland in WWII   In January 1945, the Red Army unleashed its long-awaited thrust into Germany with terrible fury. One by one the provinces and great cities of the German East were captured by the Soviet troops. Breslau, capital of Silesia, a city of 600,000 people stood firm and was declared a fortress by Hitler. A bitter struggle raged as the Red Army encircled Breslau, then tried to pummel it into submission while the city’s Nazi leadership used brutal methods to keep the scratch German troops fighting and maintain order. Aided by supplies flown in nightly and building improvised weapons from torpedoes mounted on trolleys to an armored train, the men of Fortress Breslau held out against superior Soviet forces for three months. The price was fearful. By the time Breslau surrendered on May 6, 1945, four days after Berlin had fallen, 50.00,000 soldiers and civilians were dead, the city a wasteland. Breslau was pillaged, its women raped and every German inhabitant driven out of the city which became Wroclaw in post-war Poland. Richard Hargreaves has been a journalist for 30 years, ten of them in regional newspapers. Since 2000 he has almost exclusively covered the Royal Navy and naval affairs and was an official UK war correspondent in Iraq, 2003. He currently work for the Royal Navy as a press officer/writer and sub editor of its monthly magazine Navy News. He has had three books published to date (Germans in Normandy, 2006; Blitzkrieg Unleashed, 2008; Hitler's Final Fortress, 2011) which are all still in print. Richard's previous appearance on WW2TV Opening The Gates of Hell - Operation Barbarossa June-July 1941 https://www.youtube.com/live/OmtUsgg1... Hitler's Final Fortress (Breslau/Wrocław) by Richard Hargreaves UK https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Hitle... USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97808117... Social Media links -   / ww2tv     / ww2tv     / ww2tv   WW2TV Merchandise https://ww2tv.creator-spring.com/ WW2TV Bookshop - where you can purchase copies of books featured in my YouTube shows. Any book listed here comes with the personal recommendation of Paul Woodadge, the host of WW2TV. For full disclosure, if you do buy a book through a link from this page WW2TV will earn a commission. UK - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV USA - https://bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV Patreon Brigadiers: Andrew Harris, Tonet Rivera, John Lonsberg, Susan Yu, David Keahey, Jim Walsh and Tom Mullen Become a WW2TV Brigadier and become part of this Hall of Fame   / ww2tv   🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/47793857...