the historian says that it was not an abandoned city, it had interesting food resources. Hence, an agreement was reached between the local command of the Red Army and the German inhabitants. In addition, there was a long uncertainty as to the course of the border that could have been drawn on the Oder River, and finally, the relatively late takeover of the city by the Polish authorities. "People were faster than the authorities, but we also need to understand the risks that people moving westward took in those early days," adds Prof. Osękowski. - Lack of information, the ongoing war, the Germans who still feel confident ... Anyway, it was a terrible time, people were terrified, regardless of nationality. Anything could have happened. On On February 11, 1945, the authorities of Zielona Góra, then still Grünberg, received a report about Russians in the vicinity of Nowa Sól. Wehrmacht soldiers and civilians organizing defense in cities were threatened with being cut off from the south-west. In this situation, the preparations of Zielona Góra for defense by regular troops were interrupted. On February 11 the Yalta Conference has ended and it was not known exactly what would happen to Zielona Góra. On February 12 the most important German offices and management boards of larger enterprises were evacuated beyond Nysa Łużycka. On February 13 other residents were encouraged to leave the city through megaphones. The last train left in the evening. One of the previously sent transports was hit by an English air attack in Dresden and, according to some, about 900 inhabitants of Zielona Góra died at the local railway station. On 14th of February. Hitler's ardent supporters called on the Hitler Youth to defend themselves. Previously, the so-called Sonderkommando, which from the morning started blowing up strategic objects and immobilizing various technical devices, e.g. power plants, gas plants and waterworks. The defenders set up two machine guns on the Branibor Hill. However, having heard about the imminent threat from Nowa Sól, they withdrew to the city center. On the other hand, the supporters of a quick surrender, including the worker Alfred Kuntzel, the Nazi Friedrich Brucks and the communist Karl Laube formed a surrender committee. The Soviet Red Army occupied Grünberg with little fighting on February 14, 1945, during World War II. The Red Army headed by the Third Army began by the artillery fire at 13:00 from cannons positioned