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 | 1945-04-21 | 1945-04-30 | Battle of Bautzen | In the last Germany armoured counter attack of the war, and arguably the last military victory, elements of the Fallschirm Panzer and Panzergrenadier Divisions "Hermann Goring" were successful in driving the 2nd Polish army from Bautzen. | Read about 'Battle of Bautzen' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Bautzen' |
| 1945-04-20 | Leipzig Captured | US troops of the 69th Infantry Division captures Leipzig. In July 1945 the U.S. turned the city over to the Red Army as it pulled back to occupation zone boundaries. | Read about 'Leipzig Captured' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Leipzig Captured' | |
| 1945-04-16 | Goya Sunk | In one of the largest maritime disasters in history, the German transport ship Goya was sunk by a Soviet submarine. When the ship went down she was carrying over 7000 civilians and wounded Wehrmacht troops. 183 survived. | Read about 'Goya Sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Goya Sunk' | |
| 1945-04-16 | 1945-05-02 | Battle of Berlin | The last remaining depleted, badly equipped, and disorganised Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions, as well as many Volkssturm and Hitler Youth members, fight in the suburbs of Berlin against Soviet troops. | Read about 'Battle of Berlin' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Berlin' |
| 1945-04-16 | 1945-04-19 | Seelow Heights | Close to one million Soviet soldiers of the 1st Belorussian Front commanded by Marshal Georgi Zhukov, attacked the position known as "Gates of Berlin". They were opposed by about 110,000 German soldiers of the Ninth Army. | Read about 'Seelow Heights' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Seelow Heights' |
| 1945-04-06 | 1945-04-09 | Battle of Konigsberg | After a three day full scale assault by Soviet troops from the the 3rd Belorussian Front, the defending German garrison at Konigsberg surrenders. This was the last major operation in the east Prussian offensive. | Read about 'Battle of Konigsberg' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Konigsberg' |
| 1945-04-02 | 1945-04-13 | Vienna Offensive | Soviet forces surround and besiege the Austrian capital of Vienna. The city eventually falls and the residents are subjected to weeks of violence by occupying Soviet troops. | Read about 'Vienna Offensive' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Vienna Offensive' |
| 1945-02-23 | Poznan Liberatted | The German garrison at Poznan capitulates and the city is captured by Soviet and Polish forces. | Read about 'Poznan Liberatted' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Poznan Liberatted' | |
| 1945-02-04 | 1945-02-11 | Yalta Conference | President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the organization of post war Europe. | Read about 'Yalta Conference' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Yalta Conference' |
| 1945-01-30 | Wilhelm Gustloff | Wilhelm Gustloff sunk after being hit by three torpedoes fired by the Soviet submarine S-13. Over 9000 lives were lost when the ship went down in icy Baltic waters, the worst maritime disaster in history. | Read about 'Wilhelm Gustloff' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Wilhelm Gustloff' |
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