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4/4/2019 1 Belligerents Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Kriegsmarine, Nazi Germany Commanders and leaders General Ivan Chernyakhovsky 3rd Belorussian Front Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky 2nd Belorussian Front Captain Alexander Marinesko, S‐13 German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz General Admiral Oskar Kummetz, Naval High Commander, Baltic Rear Admiral Konrad Engelhardt, head of Kriegsmarine shipping Comments on deployed forces Red Army (~2,300,000 men; 6,252 tanks) • 1 st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) • 2 nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) • 1 st Ukrainian Front (Konev) Soviet Air Force (~7,500 aircraft) Between 494 and 1,080 merchant vessels utilizing Germany's largest remaining naval units, carried between 800,000 and 900,000 German civilians and 350,000 soldiers across the Baltic Sea to Germany and Denmark Casualties 81,116 KIA; 280,251 WIA; 1,997 tanks and 917 aircraft destroyed Goya, Wilhelm Gustloff, and von Steuben and 158 other merchant vessels sunk; 36 divisions and 766,750 soldiers KIA/WIA/CIA in Battle of Berlin; countless civilians killed; 3 rd Reich falls. Kriegsmarine Operation Hannibal
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BelligerentsUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics Kriegsmarine, Nazi Germany
Commanders and leadersGeneral Ivan Chernyakhovsky
3rd Belorussian FrontMarshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
2nd Belorussian FrontCaptain Alexander Marinesko, S‐13
German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz General Admiral Oskar Kummetz,
Naval High Commander, BalticRear Admiral Konrad Engelhardt, head of
Kriegsmarine shipping
Comments on deployed forcesRed Army (~2,300,000 men; 6,252 tanks)• 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov)• 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky)• 1st Ukrainian Front (Konev)Soviet Air Force (~7,500 aircraft)
Between 494 and 1,080 merchant vessels utilizing Germany's largest remaining naval units, carried between 800,000 and 900,000 German civilians and 350,000 soldiers across the Baltic Sea to Germany and Denmark
Casualties81,116 KIA; 280,251 WIA; 1,997 tanks and 917 aircraft destroyed
Goya, Wilhelm Gustloff, and von Steuben and158 other merchant vessels sunk; 36 divisionsand 766,750 soldiers KIA/WIA/CIA in Battle of Berlin; countless civilians killed; 3rd Reich falls.
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Figure 1 Wilhelm Gustloff
Figure 3 SS Hansa
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Figure 4 Former Norwegian Frigate German Torpedo Boat Lowe
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Figure 5 Captain Petersen and Captain Zahn
Figure 6 Escape Route Op Hannibal
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Figure 7 Captain Marinesko
Figure 9 SS General Von Steuben
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