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Operation Ostra Brama
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Operation Ostra Brama (Polish: Operacja „Ostra Brama”, lit. 'Operation Gate of Dawn') was the Polish Home Army's attempted takeover of Vilnius (Polish: Wilno) in wake of the German Wehrmacht's evacuation, ahead of the approaching Soviet Red Army's Vilnius offensive. A part of a Polish national uprising, Operation Tempest, the action happened on 7–13 July 1944.[2] The operation's main goal was propagandistic – to claim Vilnius for Poland by retaking it before Soviet arrival.[3] Despite the operation's failure, the Polish government-in-exile continued its political line that led to the catastrophic Warsaw Uprising on 1 August 1944.
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Operation Ostra Brama | |||||||||
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Part of Operation Tempest in the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||||
![]() Dislocation of Polish and German units at the start of the fighting. | |||||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Aleksander Krzyżanowski Antoni Olechnowicz Czesław Dębicki [pl] Mieczysław Potocki [pl] | Reiner Stahel | ||||||||
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~6,000[1] – 9,000[2] | Existing troops, plus 17,700 as reinforcements[1] |
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