 Nekuvhiringidzwa kweSoviet VistulaOder Offensive, yakatangwa musi wa 12 Ndira 1945, uye yakafanana East Prussian Offensive yakatangwa musi wa 13 Ndira 1945, zviwanikwa zveSoviet zvepamberi pehondo yeGerman nenharaunda yePoland yakabatanidzwa yakava yekusingaperi. NeZviitiko zveEast Pomeranian, Lower Silesian uye Upper Silesian munaFebruary naKurume, Red Army yakatora kutonga kwenzvimbo dzese kumabvazuva kwerwizi rweOder. Wehrmacht counter-offensives akadai seOperation Solstice uye Operation Gemse yakadzoswa, uye chete kuderera muhomwe dzakadai seBreslau, Danzig, Heiligenbeil, Hela, Kolberg, Königsberg, nePillau zvakaramba zviri muhurumende yeGermany. Varwi veSoviet vakaita mhirizhonga dzekubata chibharo uye dzimwe mhosva Muzviitiko zvakawanda, kuitwa kwezvirongwa zvekubudiswa kwakanonoka kudzamara mauto eSoviet neAllied akunda mauto eGerman uye afambira mberi munzvimbo dzaifanira kubviswa. Mutoro wokusiya mamirioni avaGermany munharaunda idzi dzisina kudzivirirwa kutozosvikira migariro yehondo yavakurira unogona kupiwa zvakananga kumatanho akasimba akatorwa nezviremera zveGermany mukurwisana nomunhu upi noupi angafungidzirwa kuva nemafungire ekukundwa sezvo kubviswa kwairangarirwa uye kuoma mwoyo kwavabati vazhinji veNazi mukuitwa kwavo kwemirairo yaHitler yekudzokera shure kusiri madikanwa. Hitler navakuru vake vakaramba kubvuma ukuru hwemauto eSoviet. Hitler akadana Hondo Tsvuku kuti zvikwata zvevarombo uye zvikwata zvevarombo, izvo zvakanga zvisingakwanisi kukunda hondo dzinokosha. Himmler akadana gadziriro yokutanga kwokudenha kweSoviet kwa1945 kuti kunyengera kukuru zvikurusa chifo chaDshingis Khan. 