campaign, major, interwar and Second World War
East Prussian Offensive
East Prussian Offensive was a campaign fought in 1945 at East Prussia, in what is now Poland. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at East Prussia. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: Soviet victory.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1945 (year precision) to 1945 | |
|---|---|---|
| Place | East Prussia, Poland 54.710N, 20.510E | |
| Kind | Campaign, interwar and Second World War | |
| Territorial change | Most of East Prussia is annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union annexes Königsberg, Memel and their surrounding areas. | |
| Strength | 1,669,100 men,; 3,000 tanks; 25,000 guns and 3,000 aircraft | 580,000 men; 200,000 Volkssturm troopers; 700 tanks; 8,200 guns and 700 aircraft |
| Casualties and losses | 126,464 dead or missing; 458,314 wounded and sick | Unknown killed or wounded; 220,000 captured |
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Nearest engagements
- Battle of Königsberg 1945, 0.9 km NE
- Bombing of Königsberg in World War II 1941, 0.9 km NE
- Siege of Königsberg 1262, 0.9 km NE
- Battle of Rudau 1370, 18 km N
- Battle of Rudavy 1254, 19 km N
In the same war
- Before: Vistula–Oder Offensive 1945
- After: World War II destructions in Magdeburg 1945
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1945
- atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan
- Battle of Iwo Jima Japan
- Battle of Okinawa Japan
- Soviet invasion of Manchuria China
- Soviet–Japanese War Russia
Combat data (CDB90)
| Attacker: SOV 2ND BYELORUSSIAN AG(+) | Defender: GER AG CENTER | |
| Strength | 1,220,000 | 780,000 |
| Casualties | 112,000 (9.2%) | 126,000 (16.2%) |
| Mission accomplishment, 1 to 10 | 7 | 3 |
| Outcome | attacker won | |
| Duration | 2 days | |
| Front width | 500 km | 500 km |
| Attacker advanced | 125.4 km | |
From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 512), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.
East Prussian Offensive is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 502 in present-day Poland.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q636087, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article East Prussian offensive, revision 1370616342, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.