In World War II Wismar was heavily damaged by Allied air raids . At the end of the war in Europe , as the line of contact between Soviet and other Allied armies formed , Wismar was captured by the British 6th Airborne Division 's 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion on May 2 , 1945 . On 7 May 1945 Field Marshal Montgomery and Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky met in Wismar . On July 1 , 1945 , due to the occupation zone agreements of the Yalta Conference making Wismar a part of the Soviet Zone of Germany , the British troops departed and Soviet troops took over
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