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Deutsch: Grenzen der Besatzungszonen in Deutschland, 1947. Die Gebiete östlich der Oder-Neiße-Grenze, unter polnischer und sowjetischer Verwaltung/Annexion, sowie das Saar-Protektorat sind cremefarben dargestellt.
20 April — Hans Steinhoff, German film director (born 1882) 21 April — Walter Model, German field marshal (born 1891) 22 April — Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (born 1867) 23 April — Klaus Bonhoeffer, German jurist (born 1901) 24 April — Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German Reichsphysician (S.S. and Police) in the Third Reich (born 1899)
The lead elements of the two Allied army groups met on 1 April 1945, east of the Ruhr, to create the encirclement of 317,000 German troops to their west. While the bulk of the U.S. forces advanced east towards the Elbe river, 18 U.S. divisions remained behind to destroy Army Group B. The reduction of the German pocket began on 1 April by the U.S.
The Potsdam Agreement on 2 August 1945 defined the new eastern German border by giving Poland and the Soviet Union all regions of Germany east of the Oder–Neisse line (eastern parts of Pomerania, Neumark, Posen-West Prussia, East-Prussia and most of Silesia) and divided the remaining "Germany as a whole" into four occupation zones, each ...
It is estimated that in March and April 1945, at least 250,000 men and women were marched on foot to the heartland of Germany and Austria sometimes for weeks at a time. [35] [36] On 27 January, troops from Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front (322nd Rifle Division, 60th Army) liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.
On 20 April between Stettin and Schwedt, Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front attacked the northern flank of Army Group Vistula, held by the III Panzer Army. [51] By 22 April, the 2nd Belorussian Front had established a bridgehead on the east bank of the Oder that was over 15 km (9 mi) deep and was heavily engaged with the III Panzer Army. [66]
English: Germany Under Allied Occupation, 1945 British occupying forces compel the population of the German village of Burgsteinfurt to watch a film showing scenes from the concentration camps at Belsen and Buchenwald. The inhabitants enter the cinema, watched by Military Policemen and German civilian police.
In April 1945, a group of twenty-two war correspondents was quartered in a villa on the Isar river in Grünwald, another Munich suburb. Just before the women prisoners were transferred from the Walser farm to Föhrenwald, two of the men came looking for women to help in their kitchen.