Lower Silesian offensive

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Lower Silesian offensive
Part of the Silesian offensives on the Eastern Front of World War II
Russian map of the Silesian offensives
Date 8–24 February 1945 Location Lower Silesia Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
Germany	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Ferdinand Schörner	Ivan Konev

The Lower Silesian offensive (Russian: Нижне-Силезская наступательная операция) was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II in 1945, involving forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front under Marshal Ivan Konev. It cleared German troops from much of Lower Silesia and besieged a large German force in the provincial capital, Breslau. The offensive began on February 8 and continued until February 24, when the Soviets ceased their offensive having captured a small bridgehead across the Neisse River near Forst. The offensive directly succeeded the Vistula–Oder offensive, in which Konev's troops had driven the German Army Group A from Poland, liberating Kraków and taking bridgeheads over the Oder.