While the offensive did not officially start on March 2, most of these units were already fighting the advancing Russian forces on February 18, when 8th Panzer arrived to hold off the 7th Gd Tank Corps and 6th VG Division along with Pz 103 held Lauban at all costs. Much of Army Group North - including the 14th Panzer Division - was bypassed and became trapped in the Courland Pocket, and remained there until Germany's surrender in May 1945. After the end of the Soviet summer offensive of 1944 (Operation Bagration), the frontline of the Eastern Front had stabilised roughly in the middle of Poland, running from Riga on the Baltic coast over Warsaw via the Vistula to the Carpathian Mountains. Divisional assignments to Corps as of 31 Dec. [9], The LVI Panzer Corps positioned near Oppeln also started to pull back, but the 20th Grenadier (Estonian) Division of the SS and 168th Infantry Division found themselves trapped by the advance of the 4th Tank Army and 59th Army which linked up near Neustadt. (russ.) By means of a limited tactical withdrawal on 10 March, Heinrici was able to minimise the damage inflicted by the preparatory bombardment, and the front in this sector remained firm. Als Schlacht um Bautzen, die vom 21. Panzer-Division: 10: 10: 10: 2100: 15 Feb: 25 Feb: 17. The Upper Silesian Offensive succeeded in stabilising Konev's left flank in preparation for the advance on Berlin, and removed the threat of any German counter-attacks from Army Group Centre. The Panzerlage (tank status) below is the amalgamated reports of the army groups of 5 April 1945. Die Schlacht war in erster Linie gekennzeichnet von der letzten größeren deutschen Panzeroffensive sowie einem tagel… Volks-Gren Div Germany (1933-1945, Third Reich) Italy (1860-1946, Kingdom) Japan (1868-present, Empire) Netherlands, the (1815-present, Kingdom) U.S.S.R. United Kingdom (1801-present, Kingdom) United States (1776 - present, Republic) Awards All countries; Belgium (1830-present, Constitutional Monarchy) Canada (1931-present, Constitutional Monarchy) Against all odds, the German war machine continued to do amazing things despite overwhelming odds on the East Front. The 11th Panzer Division saw action for the first time in the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. This was in the closing weeks of the war and Silesia was a critical industrial complex for the Germans. 1 Features 2 Scenarios 2.1 Legend 2.2 1939 2.3 1940 2.4 1941 2.5 1942 2.6 1942-1943 (West) 2.7 1943 (East) 2.8 1944 (East) 2.9 1944 (West) 2.10 1945 (East) 2.11 1945 (West) 3 Full campaign tree An in … Jun 21, 2017 - 1945-02-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas - Bombing of Dresden - Wikipedia It was aimed at capturing the considerable industrial and natural resources located in Upper Silesia and involved forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front under Marshal Ivan Konev. The 11th Panzer Division retreated south east, eventually surrendering to US forces in the area around Passau on 2 May 1945. German Military Vehicle Photo Research Blog - 1944-1945. The Russian 6th Gd Tank Corps had arrived closer to the Gorlitz area and faced the 39th Pz Corps. The front lines in Silesia had been established at the end of the Vistula-Oder Offensive in January, during which Konev's troops had forced the German Seventeenth Army of General Friedrich Schulz out of the industrial heartland of Upper Silesia around Kattowitz. Initially it consisted of two panzer regiments organized into brigades, a motorized infantry brigade, a reconnaissance battalion, a divisional artillery regiment, and supporting ancillary formations. In the south, the 38th Army attacked German troops of the LIX Corps defending with their backs to the highlands of Moravia. Lauban stayed in the German hands but no offensive to relieve Breslau ever happened. These tended to pass between Corps. Army. Es war eine Einheit, die als sogenannte \"Feuerwehr\" für Sonder-Einsätze vorgesehen war, zu denen sie direkt vom kommandierenden General eines Panzerkorps, Walther Nehring, befohlen wurde. 8th Panzer Division (38 PzIV, 18 PzV, 9 PzJg38, 14 AT guns), 16th Panzer Division (8 PzIV, 13 PzV, 17 PzIV, 36 STG, 11 PzJg38, 8 88mm), Fuhrer Escort Division (40 PzIV, 20 PzV, 29 STG), Elements from 21st PzKG (32 PzIV, 34 PzV), Fuhrer Grenadier Division (5 PzIV, 17 PzV, 33 STG), 6th VG infantry Division (9 JgPz 38, 3 88mm, 12 PzIV). Infantrymen and a tank of the 11th Armored Division, 3rd US, Army, advance through a smoke-filled street in Wernberg, Germany, in April 1945 German artillerymen shoot at Soviet tanks … The biggest of these was in Hungary, where the last of the 6thSS Panzer Army gathered in a useless attack in mud and snow toward the last remaining oil fields Germany had used, even though, oil production had ceased. The lines in Silesia remained largely unchanged until the end of the war, when Schoerner's force surrendered. Re: The battle of Lauban March 1945 Post by F/PAUL » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:27 pm Several Western Historians have genuflected to the soviet records (Geoffrey Jukes being one) while at the same time treating german records as unreliable. [3], Despite the limited nature of the victory, the recapture of Lauban was presented as a great success by German propaganda, with Joseph Goebbels visiting the town on 9 March to give a speech on the battle. Rybalko's troops evacuated Lauban to avoid being cut off, and the town was retaken by the 6th Volksgrenadier Division. As a lull set in, the German operation was planned and forces gathered despite fuel and ammo shortages and Russian aircraft. The offensive went well until about the 5th. Tagesmeldung 4.3.1945: „In Niederschlesien brachte der eigene Angriff zweier Panzerkorps im Raum Lauban nicht den erwarteten Erfolg und lief sich zunächst fest. Eine illustrierte Geschichte der Panzerkriege von 1914 bis heute by Jorgensen, Christer / Mann, Chris and a great selection of related books, … Because of the deteriorating conditions in the last days of the war, some of the army groups only reported partially, or on different dates, which is noted under each group. A subsidiary attack by the 4th Guards Tank Corps fanned out to take Neisse. Operation Gemse (goat) was a hastily planned offensive from Gorltiz to Lowenberg with the last strong units in the area. On the 23rd, German reinforcements arrived: 1461 Regiment and 55th MG battalion at Lauban. Fighting for the region lasted from mid January right until the last day of the war in Europe on May 8, 1945. None of the Russian forces were having an easy time against the Germans and this was recognized by the Russian high command. Panzers provided the striking power of Germany’s panzer (armoured) divisions Due to the importance of the region to the Germans, considerable forces were provided to Army Group Centre for its defence and the Germans were only slowly pushed back to the Czech border. This had, however, left a long exposed flank to the south and east in the Sudeten Mountains, still held by Schulz's troops, which formed a potential threat to the proposed Soviet advance on Berlin. … It became known as "Hitler's Stalingrad". Slammed by con The Lower Silesian Offensive Operation, taking place in February, had seen the northern wing of Konev's forces make further gains, closing up to the Neisse River. Between 3 and 5 March 1945 his ISU-122 knocked out 12 enemy tanks at Waldburg, Lauban district. Army, World War, 1939-1945 -- Czechoslovakia, Germany. Konev launched his main attack on 15 March. By the start of the Polish Campaign in September 1939, the 1st Panzer Division w… Operation Gemse: the German counter-attacks at Lauban and Striegau, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upper_Silesian_Offensive&oldid=996307457, Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II, Military operations of World War II involving Germany, Articles needing additional references from March 2017, All articles needing additional references, Germany articles missing geocoordinate data, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 25 December 2020, at 19:59. The Upper Silesian Offensive was a strategically significant Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II in 1945. The 9th Mechanized Corps was also in the area and at Lowenberg facing some of the 57th Pz Corps. Browse for professionals listed alphabetically by first name in the following bracket: 'J' - Page 2433 Panzerschlacht : Operation Gemse (goat) was one of the last offensives the German Army conducted after falling back in Poland under the weight of the Russian strike for Berlin from the Vistula River. Yes, for the Germans the turning point was at Kursk, 1943. Though there were not enough forces available for a double envelopment, the Germans were able to penetrate the Soviet lines and cut off elements of the 5th Guards Army on the night of 11â12 March; there was an outbreak of panic amongst the trapped troops, who were massacred by Schörner's men as they tried to escape.[4]. The commanders of the division: General der Panzertruppe Ludwig Crüwell (1 August 1940 – 15 August 1941) Generalleutnant Günther Angern (15 August 1941 – … The operation was Top Secret, so much so that the commander of the 6th VG in Lauban was not told until the day of the attack, March 2. The Russian spearhead that had reached the area was the 3rd Guards Tank Army with around 400 armored vehicles by Mid-February, 1945. The plan was simple since the Russians had reached Lauban by the 18th, that is, attack from the flanks and encircle the Russian spearhead to destroy them. Gorlitz was defended by 5 battalions and artillery. The 1st Panzer Division was formed on October 15, 1935 from the 3rd Cavalry Division, and was headquartered in Weimar. By the 22nd, Soviet forces of the 59th and 21st Armies succeeded in reducing the Oppeln 'cauldron' (German: Kessel), claiming to have killed 15,000 and captured a further 15,000 of the German troops trapped there. Dieses Regiment unterstand keiner Division, sondern ausschließlich diesem General, und es wurde nur auf seinen Befehl da eingesetzt, wo es \"bra… I can think of s0me but “major victory” is probably stretching it. In January 1945, the Red Army launched a number of major offensives across the Eastern Front. The Russians easily replaced their losses, the Germans had none left. Commanders. Panzer, series of battle tanks fielded by the German army in the 1930s and ’40s. verteidigt wurde Lauban von den Resten der 6. The German plan to encircle much of the 3rd Tank Army failed as it was just too much, however, a smaller pocket had encircled and by some accounts, over 200 Russian AFVs had been destroyed, while the Germans had only a few losses. [10], Konev launched further attacks on 24 March, and by 31 March, when Ratibor and Katscher were taken, was able to declare the offensive phase of operations over.[11]. April 1945 stattfand, werden die umfangreichen Kampfhandlungen zwischen der deutschen Wehrmacht auf der einen sowie polnischen und sowjetischen Einheiten auf der anderen Seite in und um die Stadt Bautzen im Zweiten Weltkrieg bezeichnet. However, like the Russians, these German forces were not remotely like in their glory days and full strength, but depleted. 'Panzerschlacht' covers in detail the unraveling of the southern sector of the Eastern Front during late summer and autumn 1944, which led to some of the largest and most vicious, yet unknown, tank battles of the Second World War. As for the German losses, one Panzer division noted that it had 5 losses and 20 damaged tanks. DECEMBER 1944 TO JANUARY 1945 By Alexander Tripp and Wayne Turner Updated on 27 JanUary 2015. Passing through Bulgaria, it arrived in Belgrade and assisted in the capture of that city.. These levels were very low. Shifting the 4th Tank Army from the northern flank of his Front, he redeployed it near Grottkau in order to spearhead a major attack into Upper Silesia, neutralising the threat to the left flank of his forces and taking the area around Ratibor. Panzerdivision was formed in October 1935, making it one of the oldest Panzer Divisions of the German Army. Februar 1945 begann der sowjetische Angriff auf Lauban zunächst mit dem Einschiessen der Artillerie und im laufe des Tages mit dem Vorstoß der 56.Garde-Panzerbrigade und der 23.(mot.) The Russian added more staying power on the 22nd, when the 254th Division arrived to help the weakened 6th Gd Tank Corps. 2 2. Von dem weiteren Verlauf … wird es abhängig sein, ob der Feind veranlasst wird, Teile der vermutlich zur Auffrischung herausgezogenen 3. Much of the 3rd Tank Army had been destroyed and it was withdrawn and replenished before going to Berlin. Unit Planned Allocated Shipped Arrived Notes; Number Date Number Date Train number Shipping number; Pz Div Feldherrnhalle: 21: 21: 1945-03-09: 21: 1945-03-16: 2214: 1945-03-18: 6. 88 Topics 267 Posts Last post SPW of 5.SS Panzer-Division Wiking by Barry Crook Jul 05, 2020; Blood and Guts WWII Allied Military Vehicle Photo Research Blog. In der Historiografie findet man keine Gesamtzahlen der deutschen Verluste für die Zeit der Operation. This Russian army had been ordered to seize Gorlitz (another Hitler fortress city) and Lauban with its critical rail junction. The six tanks in the series constituted virtually all of Germany’s tank production from 1934 until the end of World War II in 1945. The fierce tank battle which took place in early March 1945 near the Silesian town of Lauban („Luban” in Polish) was a rather interesting episode of WW2 for two reasons: 1. By 4 March, the encirclement was closed, though large numbers of Soviet troops were able to escape; within 4 days the trapped force had been destroyed (the fighting in Silesia has been characterised as "merciless", with German forces not taking prisoners). South-east of Oppeln, the 59th and 60th Armies also broke through, the former swinging westwards to link up with the 4th Tank Army. The LVI Panzer Corps and XXXIX Panzer Corps were grouped under the command of General Nehring; a two-pronged attack began on 1 March, with the 17th Panzer and Führer Grenadier Divisions attacking in the north, and 8th Panzer Division to the south. By now, the Russians had seized the train station in Lauban despite the fanatical fighting from the Germans. The battle for Lauban in Silesia was a victory for the Germans. 2 Topics 3 Posts Last post US Army 5th Infantry Division in Badem Germany, 7 March 1945 * Not Baden * by Barry Crook A small map with the wrecked tanks on the island showing the positions of the last defending vehicles. As the Russians invaded Poland and reached the Oder River not far from Berlin, Hitler ordered his last offensives to try to turn the tide. Its 9th Mechanized Corps only had 48 operational tanks; its 7th Guards Tank Corps had only 55 tanks. From 6 to 11 March his gun knocked out another 4 tanks while fighting at Naumburg, but probaly the machine itself was destroyed too because Klimov was heavily wounded. The Germans also wanted to maintain control of Lauban for a planned relief attack towards Breslau and its rail junction was needed. PANZERDIVISION the early years 2. Schörner began to organise a more ambitious offensive to the north to relieve the besieged city of Breslau, moving Nehring's divisions northwards from Lauban by rail, but Konev acted decisively to regain the initiative in Silesia. The Upper Silesian Offensive was a strategically significant Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II in 1945. This offensive was entitled, Spring Awakening. In 1938 the division participated in training exercises with the XVI Corps, a fully motorized formation. Panzer division, German Panzerdivision, (“ armoured division”), a self-contained combined-arms military unit of the German army, built around and deriving its mission largely from the capabilities of armoured fighting vehicles. The First Panzer Army's XI Corps, holding the lines near Oppeln, was now threatened with encirclement. Die Verbände der Heeresgruppe Mitte befanden sich seit dem sowjetischen Durchbruch an der Weichsel Mitte Januar 1945 praktisch im ständigen Rückzug in Richtung Westen, verwickelt in andauernde Kämpfe mit den schnell vorrückenden und überholenden Einh… Also present: 8th, 16th, 17th, 19th and 20th Panzer Divisions. By the 20th, the German 10th Panzer-Grenadier Division KG had arrived near Lowenberg to strengthen the weak 408 division. The commander of Army Group Centre, Field-Marshal Ferdinand Schörner, began to build up Schulz's forces during February for a counter-attack against the 3rd Guards Tank Army's spearheads, which had reached and taken Lauban during the Lower Silesian Offensive. The 4th Tank Army broke through the German lines west of Oppeln and drove directly southward, heading for Neustadt. After that, it was a gradual pushing back by the Russians that only got worse at 1944 arrived. When your tank strength is just 50 to begin with and you lose 50%, some may not be repaired due to parts and time (as was the case) it is severe. The division was then sent to the Eastern Front where it was part of the Army Group South.It participated in the Battle of Kiev and later took part in the Battle of Moscow. It was doomed to fail and it did by March 15th. It was just a spasm on the grand scale of things. Grand Campaign is the critically acclaimed multi-stage campaign taking you from Poland 1939 to the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, across both fronts of the European theater of World War II. I knew that trying to fight on 2 fronts was a big factor in the outcome of the war. As a result, Nehring decided on a more limited plan of encirclement. Following defeat in the Ardennes Offensive, Adolf Hitler and the German leadership faced the question of how best to use what little offensive firepower remained to them, as represented by the Sixth SS Panzer Army. Schon Ende Januar 1945 hatte die Rote Armee im Rahmen der Weichsel-Oder-Operation die Vorkriegsgrenze des Deutschen Reiches im Bereich Oberschlesien überschritten. With some cities, Hitler declared them fortresses, one was Breslau, which held out until WW2 ended. A short introduction to the actions of 6th SS Panzer Army in 1945. Während des Vormarschs der Roten Armee im Februar 1945 landete ich als Wehrmachtssoldat bei einer Einheit, die hieß \"Panzer-Korps-Füsilier-Regiment 79\". Unit Planned Assigned Dispatched Train Shipped Arrived Notes; 8. Like so many last ditch efforts in February and March, 1945, local success did bring back the "glory days" that took the Russian off guard. Garde-Schützenbrigade. Kindest regards Kay Seidel However, a much smaller offensive was at the rail junction at Lauben after the Russian juggernaut had taken much of Poland in a grand offensive that ripped apart the German front lines in Silesia. Other accounts show the Russians had lost 162 tanks, 160 Assault guns. Publication date 1945-05-05 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics WWII, World War, 1939-1945, United States. April bis zum 26. 11th Panzer Division Surrender, Neumark, Czechoslovakia, 05/05/1945 by United States. [2], The 3rd Guards Tank Army was initially taken by surprise, though by 3 March German forces found themselves threatened by Soviet counterattacks from Naumberg. It was the last counterattack of the Wehrmacht which had the desired tactical results. The Russians then countered when their 214th Division arrived on the 28th. Also Führer Begleit Division,[7] 18th SS Div., 20th SS GD, and Panzer Division Hermann Göring.[8]. 1944. Garde-Panzerarmee genommen werden sollten, in der Nacht zum 17. To do this, the 57th Panzer Corps (formerly known as Nehring Group) and the 39th Panzer Corps would be used. https://www.heimatarchiv-lauban.de/1945 ... uban-1945/ Lots of destroyed Russian T-34 but also two Jagdpanzer IV. We begin with a timeline of the defence of the island starting on the 24th of April until the 3rd May 1945 with the defeat and surrender after a catastrophic attempted breakout by soldiers and civilians. The unit was not at its strongest. The offensive ended by the 8th, had gained only a six miles. Panzerschlachten. https://discover.hubpages.com/education/Operation-Gemse-at- On 12 january 1945, Soviet troops launched the simultaneous Vistula-Oder and Western Carpathian Offensives. In other words, a tank loss of 25. Most of the pre-war German territory was still under control of the Third Reich at the end of 1944. Panzerschlacht covers in detail the unraveling of the southern sector of the Eastern Front during late summer and autumn 1944, which led to some of the largest and most vicious, yet unknown, tank battles of the Second World War. The 8th Panzer claimed over 150 AFVs destroyed, while the 17th Panzer, some 80 tanks were destroyed. This fills in some of the detail. Schörner made preparations for a further attack to the south-east at Striegau, which was commenced on 9 March. [5] Units tended to move between Corps depending on situation. Liz Westwood from UK on February 19, 2020: I have heard much about the western front, but only a little about the eastern front.
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