What the records say
- When
- 9 May 1945
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 55.13° N, 14.92° E
- Description
- 1945 event at the end of World War II
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Landing at Bornholm
1945 Soviet operation in Denmark in WWII
The landing at Bornholm was a Soviet military operation to capture the Danish island of Bornholm after it was heavily bombarded by the Soviet Air Force in May 1945 during the closing days of World War II. The German garrison commander, German Navy Captain Gerhard von Kamptz (1902–1998), refused to surrender to the Soviets, as his orders were to surrender to the Western Allies.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Борнхольмский десант”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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