Month: May 2025
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[Sharing] 4 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik
Eighty years ago on this day, Soviet forces pressed forward with their successful offensive, capturing Swinemünde and battling with the remaining Wehrmacht units on the right bank of the Elbe. At the same time, an anti-Nazi uprising erupted in Prague [end] Related May 4, 2025: 5 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik May 3, 2025: 6…
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[Sharing] 5 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik
On this day 80 years ago, Soviet troops continued their advancing, consolidating efforts. The 2nd Belorussian Front continued to march towards British forces in Belzig on this day eight decades ago. 51 communities were freed as Soviet soldiers advanced. The act of capitulation was signed by German command representatives in Denmark, the Netherlands, and northwest…
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[Sharing] 6 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik
On this day 80 years ago, Soviet troops continued their advancing, consolidating efforts. The 2nd Ukrainian Front liberated 41 localities in Czechoslovakia as it proceeded with its push east of Brno. Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg offered the British command the surrender of three Wehrmacht armies in exchange for the Germans not being taken by Soviet…
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[Sharing] 7 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik
With only seven days remaining until victory, the act of surrender of German forces in Italy came into effect, the Berlin garrison fell to Soviet troops, and top Nazi Martin Bormann chose suicide [end] Related May 1, 2025: 8 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik April 30, 2025: 9 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik April 29,…
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[Sharing] 8 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik
With only eight days remaining until the Red Army’s victory, the Reichstag garrison had surrendered by the end of May 1, while the Wehrmacht’s Chief of Staff Hans Krebs and Reich Chancellor Joseph Goebbels had taken their own lives [end] Related April 30, 2025: 9 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik April 29, 2025: 10 Days…
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[Sharing] 9 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik
On this day 80 years ago, the Soviet troops raised the flag over Reichstag – the political heart of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler and his wife committed suicide; their bodies were burned in the garden of the Reich Chancellery. Meanwhile, the Soviet troops also liberated Ravensbruck – the largest female concentration camp – two thousand…
Nicolas Cinquini 