Siege of Breslau

Belligerents

Soviet Union

• National Committee for a Free Germany

GermanyCommanders and leaders6th Army:

• Vladimir Gluzdovsky

Festung Breslau:

• Hans von Ahlfen
• Hermann Niehoff

Strength 87,334 50,000Casualties and losses

31,604

• 7,177 – 13,000 killed
• 24,427 – 33,000 wounded

44,848 captured, including 6,678 – 12,000 hospitalised

The siege of Breslau, also known as the battle of Breslau, was a three-month-long siege of the city of Breslau in Lower Silesia, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), lasting to the end of World War II in Europe. From 13 February 1945 to 6 May 1945, German troops in Breslau were besieged by the Soviet forces which encircled the city as part of the Lower Silesian Offensive Operation. The German garrison's surrender on 6 May was followed by the surrender of all German forces two days after the battle.