Seelow Heights

[citation needed] After World War II, the Seelow Heights Memorial [de] was built, including a bronze statue of a Red Army soldier.

[1] During April 1945, the Battle of the Seelow Heights saw some of the heaviest fighting of the Second World War between the German defenders and the Soviet attackers.

The fighting took place on the horseshoe-shaped plateau of the Seelow Heights.

It ranged in height from 30 to 60 metres (100 to 200 ft) and it overlooked a spongy valley known for the stream veining through it, the Oderbruch.

[citation needed] Many localised Soviet attacks were held back by remnants of the Wehrmacht.

A DDR stamp showing the Soviet memorial statue at the Seelow Heights.