On this day eight decades ago, the Red Army advanced further across western Hungary and captured the Wehrmacht strongholds of Nysa and Leobschutz in Upper Silesia (present-day Poland).
German forces fiercely attempted to counterattack Soviet soldiers in the vital shipyard cities of Danzig (Gdansk) and Gdynia along the Baltic coast. In all, 373 towns were liberated along the front.
Moreover, the British Daily Express reported that SS soldiers were writing bogus obituaries and escaping the Reich to evade justice as defeat loomed [end]
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