 The division occupied the southern outskirts of the city, and then executed an enveloping maneuver westwards, going around the city through the Vienna woods, engaging in heavy combat in the center of the city, seizing key targets such as the railway terminal and the parliament, and force-crossing the Danube.After five days of violent urban warfare, Vienna fell on April 13, 1945.By early May, the division was committed to the offensive towards Prague, still in the hands of the Wehrmacht.