RED ARMY COMBAT FOOTAGE POLAND 1945 [ WWII DOCUMENTARY ]

Combat footage of the Soviet Red Army through Poland 1945 Support my channel on Patreon: The original footage is from The FilmHauer Archives Footage has been: - Digitally restored - Upscaled to FHD - Edited by Look in The Past channel. The Soviet offensive in Poland opened on January 12, 1945, when Konev’s armies were launched against the German front in southern Poland, starting from their bridgehead over the Vistula River near Sandomierz. After it had pierced the German defense and produced a flanking menace to the central sector, Zhukov’s armies in the centre of the front bounded forward from their bridgeheads nearer Warsaw. That same day, January 14, Rokossovsky’s armies also joined in the offensive, striking from the Narew River north of Warsaw and breaking through the defenses covering this flank approach to East Prussia. The breach in the German front was now 200 miles wide. On January 17, 1945, Warsaw was captured by Zhukov, after it had been surrounded; and on