ORDER OF BATTLE // February 10, 1945
East Pomeranian Offensive
Estimated force strength by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Forces engaged
1 sides catalogued · combined 996,100 estimated
Soviet Union
996,100
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The East Pomeranian Offensive was a Soviet Red Army operation conducted against German Wehrmacht forces in Pomerania and West Prussia between February and April 1945. Commanded by Konstantin Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front against German forces under Walter Weiß and Dietrich von Saucken, the operation engaged nearly one million Soviet troops and resulted in over 234,000 Soviet casualties, indicating sustained and costly fighting across the region. Coming in the final months of the Eastern Front war, the offensive addressed German positions in Pomerania and West Prussia that represented a potential threat to the northern flank of Soviet forces advancing toward Berlin. Clearing these areas was a prerequisite for securing the strategic axis westward.
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