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The East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive operation ((ロシア語:Восточно-Померанская наступательная операция)) was an offensive by the Red Army in its fight against the German ''Wehrmacht'' on the Eastern Front. It took place in Pomerania and West Prussia, and officially lasted from 10 February – 4 April 1945. In Soviet reckoning, it involved the following subordinate operations: :Konitz-Köslin Offensive Operation 24 February – 6 March 1945 :Danzig Offensive Operation 7–31 March 1945 :Arnswalde-Kolberg Offensive Operation 1–18 March 1945 :Altdamm Offensive Operation 18 March – 4 April 1945 (near Stettin) ==Planning== The 2nd Belorussian Front—under Konstantin Rokossovsky—had initially been tasked with advancing westward north of the Vistula River toward Pomerania and the major port city of Danzig, with the primary aim of protecting the right flank of Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front, which was pushing towards Berlin. During the East Prussian Offensive, however, Rokossovsky was ordered to wheel directly north toward Elbing.〔Duffy, p.170〕 This left substantial German forces intact in Pomerania, where they threatened the right flank of Zhukov's formations. As a result, once the initial phase of the East Prussian Offensive was over, the 2nd Belorussian Front was redeployed with the intention of attacking westwards into Pomerania, eliminating the possibility of a German counter-offensive (similarly, the parallel Silesian Offensives of Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front in the south were in part designed to protect the 1st Belorussian Front's left flank). The need to secure the flanks delayed the Soviets' final push towards Berlin, which was originally planned for February, until April. Joseph Stalin's decision to delay the push toward Berlin from February to April has been a subject of some controversy among both the Soviet generals and military historians, with one side arguing that the Soviets had a chance of securing Berlin much quicker and with much lower losses in February, and the other arguing that the danger of leaving large German formations on the flanks could have resulted in a successful German counter-attack and prolonged the war further: the Germans did in fact mount a surprise counter-attack in Pomerania in mid-February, Operation Solstice. The delay did, however, allow the Soviets to occupy significant parts of Austria in the Vienna Offensive. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East Pomeranian Offensive」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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