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Defining Moment · 81 years ago today
Battle of Seelow Heights Begins
Soviet forces under Marshal Georgy Zhukov launched a massive assault on the Seelow Heights, the last major defensive line before Berlin. Over one million Soviet troops attacked 100,000 entrenched German defenders in one of the bloodiest battles of the final weeks of WWII. The Soviets used 143 anti-aircraft searchlights to blind German defenders in a predawn attack.
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