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| rdfs:label | - Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead
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| rdfs:comment | - The Germans feared that the advancing Red Army would cross the frozen Oder at Schwedt, about 60 miles north-east of Berlin. The Commander-in-chief of Army Group Vistula, Heinrich Himmler, was planning a counter-offensive from Schwedt. On January 30, 1945 he ordered SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny to prepare for the offensive.
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| Strength | - Originally a Kampfgruppe, later XI SS Panzer Corps
- Deception by 2nd Guards Tank Army, supported by 61st and 49th Armies
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| Result | - Successful Soviet deception
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| Conflict | - Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead
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| abstract | - The Germans feared that the advancing Red Army would cross the frozen Oder at Schwedt, about 60 miles north-east of Berlin. The Commander-in-chief of Army Group Vistula, Heinrich Himmler, was planning a counter-offensive from Schwedt. On January 30, 1945 he ordered SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny to prepare for the offensive.
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