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	Battle of the Seelow Heights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Seelow Heights was one of the last pitched battles of World War II.
		This battle is often incorporated into the Battle of the Oder-Neisse of which the Seelow Heights was the sector in which most of the fighting in the overall battle took place, but it was only one of several points along the Oder-Neisse that the Soviets crossed to attack the Germans.
		Heinrici and General Theodor Busse, the commander of IX Army which was the army holding the heights, anticipated the attack and withdrew their defenders from the first line of trenches just before the Soviet artillery obliterated them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Seelow_Heights (1488 words)

	Seelow - introducing the city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It has approximately 5,300 inhabitants and is one of the smallest cities of Germany and became in 1863 the district capital of the former district of Lebus.
		Seelow became especially well known by the last big battle of World War II that took place from January until April 1945 between the Oder and the " Seelow heights ".
		The inhabitants coming back after the war found an almost completely destroyed Typical for the next decades were blocks of flats in the surrounding of Seelow, but not in the city centre.
	brecht-gs.dyndns.org /eseelow1.htm (260 words)

	EMC Intro
		For it was on the Seelow Heights, a ridge overlooking the Oderbruch, that in April 1945 german armed forces also fought against a different flood, the Red Army.
		The heaviest concentration was opposite the Kuestrin bridgehead on the Seelow heights, where the 9th Army under General Busse concentrated the remaining defensive assets - mostly worn-out army units and Volkssturm.
		The soviet push extended from their bridgehead at Kuestrin, opposite the Seelow Heights, and the plan called for a quick breakthrough, the usual practice and a direct copy from german Blitzkrieg tactics of the early years.
	www.ienevents.com /wbiii/emchq/27 (445 words)

	Seelow - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Seelow is a small German town with about 5000 inhabitants.
		It is situated in the very east of Germany, 40 miles east of Berlin, 10 miles west of the boundary to Poland.
		It is famous for being the place of the last big battle in Europe in the World War II - the Battle of Seelow Heights.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Seelow (118 words)

	Assault at Seelow Heights
		The Soviet Sixth Army was stalled at the Silesian capital, and Marshal Ivan Konev needed the Sixth for the final drive on Berlin.
		There was still one major obstacle to the Soviet advance--the rolling plains and plateaus of an area known as the Seelow Heights, only 35 miles from the German capital.
		German losses at Seelow were also high, with 11,000 of the 18,000 troops positioned on the lower hill dying and the Third Panzer Army suffering a total of 80,000 killed during the week of fighting.
	zhukov.mitsi.com /Seelow.htm (3819 words)

	Where do I find Battle Of The Seelow Heights information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Battle of the Seelow Heights was singular of the uttermost pitched battles of World War II.
		This carnage is regularly incorporated into the Battle of the Oder-Neisse of which the Seelow Heights was the sector in which highest of the angry in the complete carnage took place, but it was only singular of scarce the Oder-Neisse that the Soviets crossed to blitzkrieg the Germans.
		Heinrici and General Theodor Busse, the commander of IX Army which was the haversack holding the heights, anticipated the blitzkrieg and withdrew their defenders from the axiological layout of trenches undiluted before the Soviet artillery obliterated them.
	en.charm-charms.info /Battle_of_the_Seelow_Heights (1702 words)

	Pravda.RU:Restoration Work To Take Place On Seelow Heights Memorial Complex
		On Thursday for the first time since 1945 the statue of a Soviet victorious warrior dedicated to the victory of the USSR at Seelow Heights is to be removed from its foundation for renovation work.
		Seelow Heights is not far from Frankfurt-on-Oder in Germany.
		The memorial in the town of Seelow near Frankfurt-on-Oder was erected in honour of heroic deeds of the Soviet Army warriors during the Second World War.
	newsfromrussia.com /culture/2001/12/06/23025_.html (179 words)

	Seelow Heights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		One million soldiers were in action in the battle of the Seelow Heights.
		The defenses at the Seelow Heights lay about 48 meters above the flat terrain to the border River Oder, about 17 kilometers to the east.
		Two weeks after the collapse at the Seelow Heights, Hitler was dead.
	seelow-heights.iqnaut.net (197 words)

	Battle for the Seelow Heights - Part II
		The goal for the first day of operations was to capture the Seelow Heights and open the road to Berlin.
		The Oder River's flood plain along the Seelow Heights, already soaked from the spring runoff, was turned into a swamp by releasing the waters of an artificial lake upstream.
		The swampy terrain forced the armor to use the overburdened roads that the rifle divisions were already using.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/1206/19136 (493 words)

	War dead found 60 years after battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		SEELOW HEIGHTS, Germany (Reuters) - The remains of thousands of Soviet and German soldiers killed in a climactic World War Two battle outside Berlin are still being unearthed and identified 60 years after the fighting ended.
		Looking out from Seelow across the flat marshland that stretches east 17 km (11 miles) to the Oder River, Herrmann said there were many more fallen soldiers who were thrown into pits,hastily buried in shallow graves, covered by battle debris, or simply disappeared in the swampyvegetation after the war.
		The battle of Seelow Heights is considered the last great battle of World War two on the Eastern Front.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1378194/posts (1487 words)

	Decades History Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Red Army was repulsed at the Seelow Heights on the outskirts of Berlin.
		The Seelow Heights posed the last natural barrier to Berlin in April 1945 from an advancing Red Army.
		The rolling plains and plateaus of the Seelow Heights were only 35 miles from the German capital and were well defended.
	www.decades.com /ByDecade/1940-1946/56.htm (1332 words)

	Seelow Heights
		At the foot of the Seelower Hohen Memorial there is a Soviet War Cemetery which contains about thirty individual graves, each marked with a name and a Soviet star.
		We pass by the ruins of a church at Delgelin and stop briefly to examine a local Memorial, commemorating those lost in an earlier conflict.
		The ridge of the Heights is reworked into a series of "foxholes".
	www.curme.co.uk /seelow.htm (1147 words)

	Battle Of The Seelow Heights info here at en.my-widgets.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	Panzer General 2: user campaigns and links - review 07
		A couple of scenarios have been improved with respect to the original, Zitadelle and Seelow Heights, even when I did not like the originals to start with.
		The “Seelow Heights” and the “Operation Konrad” scenarios are in reversed order.
		In “Leningrad” and “Seelow” it is a butchery of infantry units.
	www.wargamer.com /pg2campaigns/steve/reviews/pg2-review-07.htm (665 words)

	Our Victory Day by Day - RIA Novosti project
		SEELOW (Germany), April 16 (RIA Novosti correspondent Taras Lariokhin) – A ceremony devoted to the 60th anniversary of the largest battle in Germany during the Red Army’s Berlin operation was held at Seelow Heights.
		Veterans who fought in the battle for Seelow Heights also spoke at the meeting.
		The Battle of Seelow Heights was waged from April 16-19, 1945, killing 33,000 Soviet, 5,000 Polish and 12,000 Wehrmacht soldiers, director of the memorial Gerd Ulrich Hermann said, taking care to differentiate “Wehrmacht soldiers” from “Germans.”
	eng.9may.ru /eng_news/m13308 (422 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The Soviet plan for the battle on the Seelow Heights called for the rifle divisions to break through the German lines, with the tank brigades assembled behind them to enter action later.
		In the farmland south of the Seelow Heights, the Soviets laid on a powerful artillery barrage and sent the infantry forward with immense tank support.
		While fighting raged on the heights to the northwest, the First Company of the SS 502nd Heavy Tank Battalion had become separated from the rest of the German defense.
	www.avalanchepress.com /BerlinScenarios3.php (3565 words)

	Memorial/Museum SEELOWER HÖHEN
		The Memorial and Museum are situated on Bundesstrasse 1 on the eastern edge of the town Seelow, Land Brandenburg.
		The Seelow Heights Memorial and Museum, together with the still visible trces of the battlefield and German and Soviet war graves, form a combination of evidence of the hard fighting in the final phases of the Second World War seldom to be found on German soil.
		For the Seelow Heights Memorial and Museum an important function for the present and in the future is keeping alive the remembrance of the suffering of soldiers and civilians during the final stages of the Second World War and, expanding from this inheritance, providing a meeting point between the German and their eastern neighbours.
	www.kultur-in-mol.de /gedenkstaette/englisch.html (357 words)

	Battle for the Seelow Heights - Part II
		The battle of the Seelow Heights was proving to be a serious blow to Zhukov's prestige.
		In effect, Konev's successful attacks on Schorner's poor defenses, to the south of the battle of the Seelow Heights, was unhinging Heinrici's brilliant defense.
		The epic battle of the Seelow Heights was over.
	www.onwar.com /articles/9905.htm (1011 words)

	Old News Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The release of the Seelow Heights Pack is being delayed because I am going on vacation for two weeks, also testing isn't completed yet either; although the pack is about 95% ready.
		New information about the Seelow Heights battle pack will be posted here in the news section of the site and also in the preview section.
		We are now working on a set of battles dealing with the battle for Seelow Heights in late in the war.
	robmin.50megs.com /cm/oldnews.html (1150 words)

	Battle for Seelow Heights - FileFront Gaming Forums
		German officials said on Tuesday they had found the skeletal remains of 1,080 Wehrmacht and 700 Red Army soldiers at the Seelow Heights battlefield since they began searching 12 years ago for victims of the fiercest World War II combat in Germany.
		A 908,000-strong Red Army force supported by 3,100 tanks opened its assault on Berlin at Seelow Heights, 70 km (45 miles) east of the capital, before dawn on April 16, 1945.
		Looking out from Seelow across the flat marshland that stretches east 17 km (11 miles) to the Oder River, Herrmann said there were many more fallen soldiers who were thrown into pits, hastily buried in shallow graves, covered by battle debris, or simply disappeared in the swampy vegetation after the war.
	forums.filefront.com /showthread.php?t=187073 (903 words)

	Panzer General 2: user campaigns and links - USSR (screenshots page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Your mission is to gain control of the Seelow Heights so the assault on Berlin can proceed.
		Russian tanks and assault guns have advanced from the Oder, over the defenses of the northern part of the Seelow Heights and have captured the town of Seelow, but due to the speed of the assault have left their supporting infantry, air defense and artillery behind.
		German tanks and the Brummbaer, ignoring the Russian infantry (who are still under artillery fire from the Seelow Heights), attack the Seelow bridgehead from the south in an attempt to cut the Russian armour from the rest of the army.
	www.wargamer.com /pg2campaigns/steve/pg2-ussr2.htm (224 words)

	Battle for the Seelow Heights - Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Battle for the Seelow Heights - Part II Battle for the Seelow Heights - Part II Ralph Zuljan
		An embarrassed Zhukov ended up racing Konev to Berlin because he failed to anticipate the strength of the German defense.
		Battle for the Seelow Heights - Part II
	www.onwar.com /articles/f9905.htm (66 words)

	Brandenburg Holiday Destination: Berlin`s beautiful backdrop - Highlights Flash Card
		The memorial site at the Seelower Höhen (heights) recalls the biggest battle of the Second World War on German soil.
		In the spring of 1945, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, 14,000 pieces of artillery, 5,000 armoured vehicles and the same number of aeroplanes confronted each other in the Oderbruch area and on the mountain range.
		The Seelower Höhen are regarded as one of the most important meeting places for the analysis of the horrors of the Second World War.
	www.brandenburg-tourism.com /pages/sights_highlights_seelow_heights.html (203 words)

	1st Belorussian Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marshal Georgy Zhukov concentrated 1BF, which had been deployed along the Oder river from Frankfurt in the south to the Baltic, into an area in front of the Seelow Heights.
		17 April The 1BF assault against Berlin is stalled by tenacious German resistance on the Seelow Heights, 3 km west of the Oder, with great losses of troops and tanks for the Soviets.
		18 April 1BF continues to batter the German position across the Seelow Heights in a battle of attrition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1st_Byelorussian_Front (1006 words)

	RIA Novosti - World - SEELOW HEIGHTS TO HOST SOLEMN CEREMONY
		Wreaths will be laid at the local war memorial's central sculpture depicting a Soviet soldier with a tank turret at his feet.
		The Red Army stormed Seelow heights on April 16-19, 1945.
		All in all, 33,000 Soviet soldiers, 5,000 Polish soldiers and 12,000 Wehrmacht servicemen were killed in the fighting, Gerd-Ulrich Hermann, director of this memorial complex, told RIA Novosti.
	en.rian.ru /world/20050416/39675116.html (271 words)

	A Million Corpses to Berlin - book about Red Army's Conquest of Germany
		The Seelow Heights commanded the ten-mile wide Oder River valley flatlands,
		The Seelow Heights escarpment ranged from 100 to 200 feet above the valley bed.
		The obstacles in front of and behind Seelowe included woods, villages, stretches of
	www.quikmaneuvers.com /million_corpses_to_berlin.html (338 words)

	Battlefront Paintball - The Latest News
		At first they assisted the Germans by defending the Seelow Heights, and once the Germans withdrew to fight the Americans, the French promptly abondoned the hill, entered the Reichstag, and advised the sole German defender to seek his fortune elsewhere.
		This, plus all the balls flying from the Americans occupying the Seelow Heights, ended this assault in a big hurry.
		Because the American Parachute Infantry Regiment in the woods was eliminated almost immediately in the first scenario, it took almost an hour of extremely heavy fighting before the Americans were able to dislodge the Germans from their primary defensive positions and force them back to the Reichstag and Ludendorf bunker.
	www.battlefrontpaintball.com /latest_news.asp (1520 words)

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