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On This Day in History - April 30, 1945
April 30, 1945 #OTD World War II: Battle of Bautzen, ends in a German victory. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Polish casualties were particularly severe. In a relatively short time the Polish Second Army lost more than 22 percent of its personnel and 57 percent of its tanks and armored vehicles (about 200 total). Official estimates claimed about 18,000 casualties (including almost 5,000 dead). Some other estimates give the Polish casualties as up to 25,000. According to Polish historian Zbigniew Wawer, this was the most bloody battle that the Polish Army had been involved in since the Battle of Bzura in 1939. German casualties were significant, but less than the Polish and Soviet ones; contemporary Polish sources estimated German losses at 6,500 personnel, which is now seen as an inflated estimate. Pictured: Some German soldiers of the Fallschirm-Panzer division "Hermann Göring" equipped with the Gewehr 43 during the battle of Bautzen in April 1945.
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