East Pomeranian offensive

East Pomeranian Offensive; East Pomeranian strategic offensive operation
	Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
	; Soviet troops manning two M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (MGMC) self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicles (half-tracks) in Danzig, March 1945.
Date	24 February – 4 April 1945
Location	Pomerania, Danzig-West Prussia inside Germany
Result	Soviet victory
Belligerents
Germany	Soviet Union; Poland
Commanders and leaders
Walter Weiß; Dietrich von Saucken; (2nd Army)	Konstantin Rokossovsky; (2nd Belorussian Front)
Strength
Unknown	996,100
Casualties and losses
Unknown	234,360 55,315 killed or missing; 179,045 wounded; Materiel destroyed or captured 1,027 tanks and self-propelled guns; 1,005 guns and mortars; 1,073 aircraft;

The East Pomeranian strategic offensive operation (Russian: Восточно-Померанская наступательная операция) was an offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. It took place in Pomerania and West Prussia from 10 February – 4 April 1945.

The operation happened in four phases:

Konitz-Köslin offensive operation 24 February – 6 March 1945

Danzig offensive operation 7–31 March 1945

Arnswalde–Kolberg offensive operation 1–18 March 1945

Altdamm offensive operation 18 March – 4 April 1945 (near Stettin)

It was the East Pomeranian offensive that prevented Zhukov from reaching Berlin in February (the object of the massive Vistula–Oder offensive), since it became a priority to clear German forces from Pomerania first.