Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Vistula-Oder Offensive was a successful Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European Theatre of World War II; it took place between 12 January, 1945 and 2 February, 1945. The offensive took Soviet forces from their start lines on the Vistula river in Poland to the Oder river deep in Germany, about seventy kilometers from the capital Berlin. Two Fronts of the Red Army were directly involved. The 1st Belorussian Front, holding the sector around Warsaw and southward in the Magnuszew and Pu awy bridgeheads, was led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov; the 1st Ukrainian Front, occupying the Sandomierz bridgehead, was led by Marshal Ivan Konev. Soviet forces in this sector were opposed by Army Group A, defending a front which stretched from positions east of Warsaw southwards along the Vistula, almost to the confluence of the San. At that point there was alarge Soviet bridgehead over the Vistula in the area of Baranow before the front continued south to Jas o.