Siege of Breslau
Siege of Breslau was a siege conducted on 23 January 1945 at Wrocław, in what is now Poland; it lasted 3 months. It was part of the Eastern Front, which ran from 1941 to 1955. The recorded result: Soviet victory. Recorded strength: 87,334 against 50,000.
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Delegation of German Wehrmacht officers holding surrender flags to negotiation talks towards the end of World War II in the European Theatre of War. Published in Ryszard Majewski, "Wrocław - godzina zero", Wrocław, 1985, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons .
Fought 23 January 1945 lasted 3 months
Where Wrocław, Poland 51.108N, 17.035E
Outcome Soviet victory
Belligerents Soviet Union; National Committee for a Free Germany against Nazi Germany
Where it sits in the Eastern Front Baltic Sea campaigns, 1939 Battle of Moscow, 1941 Battle of Kiev, 1941 Battle of Smolensk, 1941 Summer War, 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, 1941 Battle of Lwów, 1941 Battle of Rossieny, 1941 Action of 26 June 1941, 1941 Defense of Borisov, 1941 Solovyovo crossing, 1941 Siege of Mahilow, 1941 Battle of Lepel, 1941 Baltic Operation, 1941 Action of 9 July 1941, 1941 Siege of Odesa 1941, 1941 Siege of Leningrad, 1941 Battle of the Sea of Azov, 1941 Battle of Petrikowka, 1941 Battle of Bryansk, 1941 Battle of Mtsensk, 1941 Battle at Borodino Field, 1941 First Battle of Kharkov, 1941 Capture of Gorlovka, 1941 Action of 6 December 1941, 1941 Battle of Jibrieni, 1941 Kerch-Feodosia Landing Operation, 1941 Tatsinskaya Raid, 1942 Operation Wirbelwind, 1942 Battle of Lyuban, 1942 Battles of Rzhev, 1942 Lake Ilmen action, 1942 Kholm Pocket, 1942 Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive, 1942 Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, 1942 Second Battle of Kharkov, 1942 Demyansk Pocket, 1942 Battle of Kalach, 1942 Attack of the U-209 on the convoy near Matveyev Island, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad, 1942 Attack on Stalingrad, 1942 Battle of Cape Burnas, 1942 Battle of Sukho Island, 1942 Defense of the Adzhimushkay quarry, 1942 Battle of Kursk, 1943 Battle of Kiev, 1943 Battle of Lenino, 1943 North-Caucasian offensive operation, 1943 Aul Bridgehead, 1943 Operation Spark, 1943 Voronezh–Kastornoye Offensive, 1943 Third Battle of Kharkov, 1943 Battle of Sokolovo, 1943 Battle of Prokhorovka, 1943 Donbass Strategic Offensive, 1943 Battle of Belgorod, 1943 Battle of the Dnieper, 1943 Bukrin Bridgehead, 1943 Battle of the Caucasus, 1943 Battle of Nevel, 1943 Battle for Narva, 1944 Battle of Romania, 1944 Battle of Studzianki, 1944 Battle of Auvere, 1944 Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket, 1944 Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive, 1944 Battle for Narva Bridgehead, 1944 Battle of Rivne, 1944 Narva Offensive February 1944, 1944 Battle of Kovel, 1944 Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive, 1944 March 1944 Narva Offensive, 1944 Narva Offensive, 1944 Odesa offensive, 1944 Ol′shanskiy amphibious landing, 1944 Crimean Offensive, 1944 First Battle of Târgu Frumos, 1944 Battle of Gurby, 1944 Landing of Turkestan legionnaires near Guryev, 1944 Battle of Nerva Island, 1944 Šiauliai Offensive, 1944 Belostock Offensive, 1944 Battle of Brody, 1944 Battle of Tannenberg Line, 1944 Battle of Radzymin, 1944 Battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 Moonsund Landing Operation, 1944 Battle of Memel, 1944 Amphibious Operation at Liinahamari, 1944 Battle of Leszczawa Górna, 1944 Battle of Debrecen, 1944 Battle of Bautzen, 1945 Battle of Kolberg, 1945 Siege of Danzig, 1945 Battle of Bydgoszcz, 1945 Liberation of Warsaw, 1945 Siege of Breslau, 1945 Heiligenbeil Pocket, 1945 Battle of Kosmach, 1945 East Pomeranian Offensive, 1945 Battle of Zhovkva, 1945 Battle of the Oder–Neisse, 1945 Battle of Berlin, 1945 Battle of the Seelow Heights, 1945 Battle in Berlin, 1945 Battle of Radekhiv, 1945 Storming of the Reichstag, 1945 Attack on Variazh, 1945 Attack on Werbkowice Railway Station, 1946 Attack on Hrubieszów, 1946 Battle of Sushky, 1955 Battle of the Bozhykiv Forest, 1960 1939 1960 Siege of Breslau, 1945 120 placed engagements of the Eastern Front in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.
Record
Date 23 January 1945to 6 May 1945 Place Wrocław, Poland51.108N, 17.035E Kind Siege, interwar and Second World War Strength 87,334 50,000 Casualties and losses 31,604; 7,177 – 13,000 killed; 24,427 – 33,000 wounded 44,848 captured, including 6,678 – 12,000 hospitalised Commanders Hans von Ahlfen Hermann Niehoff
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Nearest engagements
Contested ground: this site was fought over 3 times between 1757 and 1945.
Siege of Breslau is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 469 in present-day Poland.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q664581 , released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Breslau , revision 1380694546, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.
