Battle of Hamburg (1945) siege by the Soviet Red Army, refused to send reinforcements. The Germans managed to resist the British in Bremen for a week; the surviving troops retreated to the Jutland peninsula. The last remaining defence was the city of Hamburg and the Germans sought to make a final stand there. After capturing Soltau, the British 7th Armoured Division of the VIII Corps was poised to assault the city. The British advance towards Hamburg was spearheaded by the 7th Armoured Division, attacking Harburg and advancing to the River Elbe across from Hamburg, with the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division assaulting the town of
Hamburg German "eu" (pronounced "oi") for the diphthong (written "öö", "öh" or "ö"), e.g. However, as in most other Low Saxon (Low German) dialects, the long monophthong is pronounced (as in French "peu"), for instance "Kööm" ~ "Kœm" ‘caraway’. The Low Saxon language in Hamburg is divided in several subdialects, e.g. The Hamborger Veermaster is a famous sea shanty sung in the regional dialect. Hamburg German Hamburg German, also known as Hamburg or Hamburger dialect (), is a group of Northern Low Saxon varieties spoken in Hamburg, Germany. Occasionally, the term "Hamburgisch" is also used for Hamburg "Missingsch", a variety of standard