Last European engagements 1945

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Last European engagements 1945

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Post by harry6116 » 22 Mar 2014, 11:08

hey all,
i'm a man who likes to know every detail of things. What was the last no engagement big or small in the European theatre? I ask this because I heard about some German and Russian skirmishes on May 9, 1945. Does anyone have any information on this?
thanks for any help

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Post by hucks216 » 10 Apr 2014, 23:11

It is entirely possible, especially in the Courland Pocket.


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Post by harry6116 » 10 Apr 2014, 23:46

hey,
hitler was a fool for not taking those troops out of the Courland Pocket. there were around 2000 germans in there am i right on the numbers?

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Post by Globalization41 » 11 Apr 2014, 01:56

5/10/1945, Marshal Stalin's Announcement at 1:am (5/9) of Victory Comes to Moscow as Complete Surprise, Rejoicing Follows

5/10/1945, Field Marshal Keitel Presents Admiral Doenitz's Unconditional Surrender to Marshal Zhukov

5/10/1945; Tokyo Radio Announces Germany's Surrender, Says Hitler's Fatal Mistake Was Underestimating the Soviet Union

5/10/1945, German Fanatics Still Resisting in Czechoslovakia, but Running Low on Ammo; 2,000 S.S. Men Battle U.S. 80th

5/10/1945; Dr. Seyss Inquart, German Commissioner io Holland, Surrenders

5/10/1945, London Estimates 22,000,000 Killed in World's Worst War

5/10/1945, German Planes Bomb Prague

5/10/1945, Red Army Enters Prague, Russian Commander Says Soviets Have No Intention of Forcing Any Administration on Czechs

5/10/1945, Goering & Kesselring Surrender to Americans

5/10/1945, Russians Mopping Up, Marshal Stalin Reports Dresden Has Been Occupied

5/10/1945, Germans Throw Hand Grenades at Norwegian Celebrations, Norway Asks Sweden to Let 300,000 Germans Cross

5/10/1945, Zagreb Liberated Says Belgrade Radio

5/10/1945, Nearly 300,000 Germans Begin Long March from Denmark

5/10/1945, Quisling Surrenders

5/10/1945, Royal Australian Air Force Stands Down

5/10/1945, Disorderly Crowd in Dublin Stones Office Windows of British Representative & American Consulate

5/10/1945, Spectators in Dublin Boo Students at Trinity College for Running up Union Jack & Other Allied Flags

5/10/1945, London Celebrates, Unrestricted Merrymaking

5/10/1945, Himmler Missing, Believed in Denmark, Chaos in Germany

5/10/1945, American Transport Plane Returning from Continent Crashes in Bad Weather, 30 British & American Passengers Killed

5/10/1945, Japanese Death Camp at Tarakan Liberated by Australian Troops, Corpses & Skeletons Found Rotting in Blistering Sun

Satelitte Map, Tarakan, Indonesia

5/10/1945, Nazi Minister in Eire Shuts Down Legation

5/10/1945, Milan Celebrates with Machineguns, Bombs, & Hand Grenades, Several People Injured

5/10/1945, Japan Next Says Churchill

5/10/1945, Mass Movement of Troops from Europe to Begin for Invasion of Japan

5/10/1945, Super-Fortresses Raid Japan

5/11/1945, Russian Controlled Warsaw Radio Accuses General Okulicki of Carrying Out Diversionary Activity Against Red Army

5/11/1945, Australians on Tarakan

5/11/1945, Huge Super-Fortresses Blast Japan in Round-the-Clock Raids

5/11/1945, South Australian Battalion Fights Bitter Action for Syke's Ridge on Tarakan

5/11/1945, Mussolini's Family Arrested Near Florence

5/11/1945, Last Fighting in Europe Flickering Out as German Pockets Surrender, Red Army Clearing Prague of All Resistance

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Post by harry6116 » 11 Apr 2014, 03:49

very good links there.

thanks a lot

Michael

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Post by Kingfish » 11 Apr 2014, 11:40

harry6116 wrote:hey,
hitler was a fool for not taking those troops out of the Courland Pocket. there were around 2000 germans in there am i right on the numbers?
You are off by a few zeros. Several sources put the number at around 200,000.
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Post by harry6116 » 11 Apr 2014, 14:28

hey,
that was a typo, i meant to put 200000 but put 20000

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Post by trekker » 12 Apr 2014, 09:28

The last fight of the German forces in Europe in WWII took place at Poljana in Slovenia on 13.5.1945:

During the night 12. - 13.5.1945 German 104. Jäger-Division and German marines reached Poljana close to the Yugoslav - Austrian border. There they were met by three battalions of Tomšič brigade and 2. battalion of 7. Vojvodina brigade. Negotiations were finished at about noon when German colonel in charge signed the instrument of surrender but then navy colonel von Huch took the command and refused to surrender. 45 minutes of heavy fire (guns included) followed with about 120 dead and 100 wounded and at least 3000 captured on the German side.

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Post by trekker » 12 Apr 2014, 09:29

The last fight of the Axis forces in Europe in WWII took place at Poljana in Slovenia on 14.5.1945:

After German prisoners were taken away from Poljana 13.5.1945 Tomšič brigade remained there with 1. and 2. battalion joined by 1. battalion of Šlander brigade. 14.5.1945 at about 9 a.m. they started to fight with arriving ustasha. Fierce fighting continued during the day until about 10 p.m. when partisans had to retreat because they were attacked from their back as 7. Vojvodina brigade had left its nearby position without fight thus enabling ustasha to proceed. Ustasha reached Libuško polje where they were encircled and had to surrender 15.5.1945.

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Post by harry6116 » 12 Apr 2014, 09:39

wow!
where did you find this fantastic info?

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Post by trekker » 13 Apr 2014, 11:04

harry6116 wrote: where did you find this fantastic info?
Before posting I checked the information in the book
Franci Strle: Veliki finale na Koroškem, 1977.
Otherwise, it is a common knowledge in Slovenia that WWII in Europe actually ended 15.5.1945 near Libuče/Loibach in Austria with the last fighting at Poljana in Slovenia 13. - 14.5.1945.
There is a memorial at Poljana erected in 1985 with the inscription: Svobodi in miru (To Freedom and Peace). You can see it at http://www.kleindenkmaeler.at/detajl/kriegerdenkmal1

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Post by harry6116 » 13 Apr 2014, 12:23

It's amazing the new things I have learned since joining this forum

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Post by Globalization41 » 13 Apr 2014, 20:32

Moscow claimed 1,230,000 Germans surrendered between May 9 and May 14. If it weren't for Roosevelt forcing the D-Day strategy, the Germans could probably have held out a lot longer. ... I wonder what happened to the 1,230,000 troops who surrendered? Were they sent to Siberia for economic exploitation? Were they released fairly quickly? ... I've heard very few of those who surrendered at Stalingrad ever returned to Germany. It would be interesting to find out how many of those who surrendered from May 9 to May 14 eventually returned.

5/14/1945, Russians Mopping Up, Prisoners Streaming In, Nearly 600,000 in Four Days

5/15/1945, Surrendering Germans, Thousands on Russian Fronts, Moscow Communique

5/16/1945, Russian Operations, Over a Million Prisoners in Six Days

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Post by harry6116 » 13 Apr 2014, 23:19

i would say that 98% would not have come back to germany. Maybe I am being melodramatic but some of the numbers after stalingrad speak for themselves.

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