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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.
Kołobrzeg (Polish: [kɔˈwɔbʐɛk] ⓘ; Kashubian: Kòlbrzég; German: Kolberg [ˈkɔlbɛʁk] ⓘ) is a port and spa city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland with about 47,000 inhabitants (as of 2014).
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.
The Province of Pomerania (German: Provinz Pommern; Polish: Prowincja Pomorze) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945. Pomerania was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, an expansion of the older Brandenburg-Prussia province of Pomerania, and then became part of the German Empire in 1871.
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 ...
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