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| Operation Ostra Brama | |||||||||
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| Part of Operation Tempest in the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||||
 Dislocation of Polish and German units at the start of the fighting. | |||||||||
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 Germany | |||||||||
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Aleksander Krzyżanowski Antoni Olechnowicz Czesław Dębicki Mieczysław Potocki | Reiner Stahel | ||||||||
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| ~6,000[1] – 9,000[2] | Existing troops, plus 17,700 as reinforcements[1] | ||||||||
| Part of a series on the |
| Polish Underground State |
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Operation Ostra Brama (Polish: Operacja „Ostra Brama”, lit. 'Operation Gate of Dawn') was the Polish Home Army's attempted takeover of Vilnius (Polish: Wilno) in wake of the German Wehrmacht's evacuation, ahead of the approaching Soviet Red Army's Vilnius offensive. A part of a Polish national uprising, Operation Tempest, the action happened on 7–13 July 1944.[2] The operation's main goal was propagandistic – to claim Vilnius for Poland by retaking it before Soviet arrival.[3] Despite the operation's failure, the Polish government-in-exile continued its political line that led to the catastrophic Warsaw Uprising on 1 August 1944.
- ^ a b c Borodziej 2006, pp. 54–57.
- ^ a b Encyklopedia PWN 2023.
- ^ Tarka, Krzysztof (2000). Jeden z wyklętych - generał Aleksander Krzyżanowski "Wilk" : komendant Okręgu Wileńskiego ZWZ-AK. Warsaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza Rytm. ISBN 83-87893-70-6.