Upper Silesian Offensive
{'<entity_0>': 'Upper Silesian Offensive', '<entity_1>': 'World War II', '<entity_2>': 'Upper Silesia', '<entity_3>': 'Silesia', '<entity_4>': 'Soviet Union', '<entity_5>': 'Poland'}
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The <entity_0> was a strategically significant <entity_4> offensive on the Eastern Front of <entity_1> in 1945. After the end of the <entity_4> summer offensive of 1944 (Operation Bagration), the frontline of the Eastern Front had stabilised roughly in the middle of <entity_5>, running from Riga on the Baltic coast over Warsaw via the Vistula to the Carpathian Mountains. The front lines in <entity_3> had been established at the end of the Vistula-Oder Offensive in January, during which Konev's troops had forced the German Seventeenth Army of General Friedrich Schulz out of the industrial heartland of <entity_2> around Kattowitz. By 4 March, the encirclement was closed, though large numbers of <entity_4> troops were able to escape; within 4 days the trapped force had been destroyed (the fighting in <entity_3> has been characterised as "merciless", with German forces not taking prisoners).
['military offensive']