80 years ago today, the Red Army launched “Operation Berlin” – AKA, the final Soviet assault on Berlin. Last week, […]
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Another fantastic day out ‘walking the ground’ near Halbe…and look what you can find when you go walking through the
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Battle of the Seelow Heights! The memorial at the Seelow Heights is another fine example of bombastic Soviet let’s-gloss-over-the-mistakes-we-made-in-the-battle propaganda,
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Today sees the release of the final episode in my series “Encircled: The Halbe Pocket Podcast”, so fittingly, it’s also
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The escape of the German 9th & 12th armies at Tangermünde. In today’s new episode of the Halbe Pocket Podcast,
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The location of the link-up between the German 9th and 12th armies. The small village of Schönefeld, 3km outside of
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In the name of history I did a little bit of “Walking the Ground” around ‘Kummersdorf Gut’ – a former
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In order to stop the German breakout through Halbe (and kill or capture as many of the breakout force as
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The breakout from the Halbe Pocket begins The latest episode of Encircled: The Halbe Pocket Podcast, episode 1.10, covers the
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This is the Kaiserbahnhof building and adjacent buildings, which today serve as Halbe’s train station. On the 28th of April
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