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On Fri. 12 Jan 1945 Soviet forces launched an offensive with 2,000,000.....

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Soviet forces launched an offensive with 2,000,000 men from bridgeheads of the Vistula River in Poland toward the Oder River in eastern Germany. On the same day, three Soviet armies encircled Warsaw, Poland

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