Video: 'Week 282 - The Red Army Overruns Poland! - WW2 - January 20, 1945' (Warsaw liberated at 3:36)

(Wednesday, January 17, 1945, German forces cleared from the city by noon Central European Time; during the Vistula–Oder Offensive, part of the Eastern front of World War II) — Russian and Polish troops today captured devastated Warsaw to free its last survivors of five years of Nazi tyranny as the Red Army’s greatest offensive surged twenty-four miles across western Poland, taking Czestochowa and reaching within fourteen miles of the German border.