battle, notable, interwar and Second World War
Battle of Bautzen
Battle of Bautzen was a battle fought in 1945 at Bautzen, in what is now Germany. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Bautzen. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: German victory; The German offensive did not achieve sufficient success.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1945 (year precision) to 1945 | |
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| Place | Bautzen, Germany 51.181N, 14.424E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | 50,000; 300 tanks; 600 artillery pieces; 497 armoured vehicles | Polish Army: 80,000; 500 tanks; Soviet Army: at least 20,000 |
| Casualties and losses | 5,000 killed | Polish (official): 4,902 killed; 10,532 injured; 2,798 missing; Soviet: unknown |
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Nearest engagements
- Siege of Bautzen 1429, same recorded site
- Battle of Bautzen 1813, 0.5 km NW
- Siege of Bautzen 1029, 0.5 km NW
- Battle of Hochkirch 1758, 11 km E
- Battle of Horką 1431, 35 km E
In the same war
- Before: Final operations in Slovenia 1945
- After: 1945 Bombing of Prague 1945
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1945
- atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan
- Battle of Iwo Jima Japan
- Battle of Okinawa Japan
- Soviet invasion of Manchuria China
- Soviet–Japanese War Russia
Battle of Bautzen is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 668 in present-day Germany.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q316843, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Bautzen (1945), revision 1381439606, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.