Last Laurels: The German Defence of Upper Silesia, January-May 1945 - Georg Gunter - Google Books

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By January 1945, Upper Silesia had become Germany's key industrial region, with its coal mines, blast furnaces, arms factories and hydrogenation plants. Not surprisingly, when the Soviets launched a series of powerful offensives aimed at capturing the…