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Gedenkstätte Seelower Höhen

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This memorial exhibit commemorates one of the last major battles of WWII, which took place on the Seelow Heights, a plateau overlooking the Oder River Valley. Some 100,000 German soldiers held off the Soviet advance for about three days in brutal fighting that left an estimated 50,000 combined dead.


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