✦ History

Part of Eastern Front (World War II)

Moravia–Ostrava offensive

March 10 – May 5, 1945 · Moravia

Result Soviet victory

The Red Army attacked through Silesia and Moravia, taking the Ostrava industrial area from German forces. The offensive helped bring most of eastern Czechoslovakia under Soviet control.

On the map Contemporaries

Axis powers

Allies of World War II

Germany
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Gotthard Heinrici military commander Ferdinand Schörner military commander Walther Nehring military commander
Andrey Yeryomenko military commander Ivan Yefimovich Petrov military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
23,960
Wounded
88,660

Units

1st Panzer Army
4th Ukrainian Front 18th Army (Soviet Union) 60th Army (Soviet Union) 100th Rifle Division 107th Rifle Division 121st Rifle Division 129th Guards Rifle Division 138th Rifle Division 140th Rifle Division 183rd Rifle Division 211th Rifle Division 226th Rifle Division 237th Rifle Division 241st Rifle Division 242nd Rifle Division 70th Guards Rifle Division