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The Battle of Kolberg or Battle of Kołobrzeg (also, battle for Festung Kolberg) was the taking of the city of Kolberg, now the city of Kołobrzeg, in Pomerania by the Soviet Army and its Polish allies from Nazi German forces during the World War II East Pomeranian Offensive.
The Soviet Union permanently expelled all who survived the siege, along with all Germans in east Pomerania. The ruined city of Kolberg became part of the postwar socialist republic of Poland. The city is now known as Kołobrzeg. After World War II the film was released in Argentina as Burning Hearts and in Switzerland as The Renunciation. [14]
Arnswalde–Kolberg offensive operation 1–18 March 1945 Altdamm offensive operation 18 March – 4 April 1945 (near Stettin) It was the East Pomeranian offensive that prevented Zhukov from reaching Berlin in February (the object of the massive Vistula–Oder offensive), since it became a priority to clear German forces from Pomerania first.
Battle of Kolberg or Colberg may refer to Battle of Colberger Heide (1644), during the Danish-Swedish War, a theater of the Thirty Years' War; Siege of Kolberg (Seven Years' War), three subsequent sieges in 1759, 1760 and 1761; Siege of Kolberg (1807), during the Napoleonic Wars; Battle of Kolberg (1945), during World War II
Refugees moving westwards in 1945. During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by ...
The Kolberg class was a group of four light cruisers built for the German Imperial Navy and used during the First World War. The class comprised four vessels: SMS Kolberg, the lead ship, Mainz, Cöln, and Augsburg. The ships were built between 1908 and 1910, and two, Kolberg and Augsburg, were modernized in 1916–1917.
Paul Heyse's drama was exploited [71] in the Nazi propaganda movie Kolberg, which was begun in 1943 and released in 1945 near the end of World War II. At a cost of more than eight million marks, it was the most expensive German film of the Second World War. [72]
Alfred Liskow (also spelled Liskov [1] [2] or Liskof; [3] first name sometimes given as Albert; [4] [5] Russian: Альфред Германович Лисков, romanized: Alfred Germanovich Liskov; 1910 – unknown) was a German soldier and deserter who swam across the Bug River at 9:00 pm on the eve of Operation Barbarossa near Sokal, just north of Lwow, in 1941 to warn the Red Army of ...