battle, interwar and Second World War
Battle of Kassel
Battle of Kassel was a battle fought on 1 April 1945 at Kassel, in what is now Germany; it lasted 3 days. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: American victory.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1 April 1945 to 4 April 1945 | |
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| Place | Kassel, Germany 51.289N, 9.432E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | 6,000 | |
| Casualties and losses | 12 Tanks Destroyers destroyed | 50+ killed; 5,400+ captured; 2 Tiger II Destroyed; 1 Tiger II damaged |
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Nearest engagements
- Siege of Cassel 1762, 5.4 km NE
- Siege of Cassel 1761, 5.7 km NE
- Battle of Lutterberg 1758, 13 km NE
- Battle of Lutterberg 1762, 13 km NE
- Battle of Wilhelmsthal 1762, 14 km N
Contested ground: this site was fought over 3 times between 1761 and 1945.
In the same war
- Before: Battle of the Argenta Gap 1945
- After: Operation Roast 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 Kassel 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 Q245743, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Kassel (1945), revision 1370444910, 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.