East Prussian offensive

BelligerentsSoviet UnionGermanyCommanders and leadersKonstantin Rokossovsky
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Ivan Bagramyan
Ivan IsakovGeorg-Hans Reinhardt
Lothar Rendulic
Friedrich Hossbach
Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller
Erhard Raus
Walter Weiß
Dietrich von SauckenUnits involved

Red Army

• 2nd Belorussian Front
• 3rd Belorussian Front
• 43rd Army
• 1st Baltic Front

Soviet Navy

• Baltic Fleet

Wehrmacht

• Army Group Centre(renamed the Army Group North)
  • 3rd Panzer Army
  • 4th Army
  • 2nd Army

Volkssturm

BattalionStrength 1,669,100 men,
3,000 tanks
25,000 guns and 3,000 aircraft

580,000 men

• 200,000 Volkssturm troopers
  700 tanks
  8,200 guns and 700 aircraft

Casualties and losses 126,464 dead or missing
458,314 wounded and sick Unknown killed or wounded
220,000 captured

The East Prussian offensive was a strategic offensive by the SovietRed Army against the GermanWehrmacht on the Eastern Front of World War II. It lasted from 13 January to 25 April 1945, though some German units did not surrender until the country did on 9 May. The Battle of Königsberg was a major part of the offensive, which ended in victory for the Red Army.

The East Prussian offensive is known to German historians as the second East Prussian offensive. The first East Prussian offensive (also known as the Gumbinnen Operation), took place from 16 to 27 October 1944, and was carried out by the 3rd Belorussian Front under General I.D. Chernyakhovsky as part of the Memel offensive of the 1st Baltic Front. The Soviet forces took heavy casualties while penetrating 30–60 km (19–37 mi) into the east-northern part of Poland, and the offensive was postponed until greater reserves could be gathered.