The Death Valley

After the battle of the Dukla Pass on the Slovak border, the Red Army was stopped by a new German defense line. At that time the Soviet command decided to bypass this Resistance by taking the valley of Kapisova. On …

1944-10-25

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After the battle of the Dukla Pass on the Slovak border, the Red Army was stopped by a new German defense line. At that time the Soviet command decided to bypass this Resistance by taking the valley of Kapisova. On the 25th of October 1944, the 305th Rifle Division and the 12th Guards Tank Brigade entered in the valley bitterly defended by the Germans. During two days, a fierce battle happened in this valley causing a lot of losses to the two belligerents. Finally, when the Soviet troops entered in Kapisova on the 27th of October, the battlefield was covered with dead soldiers and destroyed tanks. The valley of Kapisova had became the Death Valley, "Udolie Smrti".

Kapisova, Slovakia

The Battle of the Dukla Pass, also known as the Dukla / Carpatho-Dukla / Rzeszów-Dukla / Dukla-Prešov Offensive was the battle for control over the Dukla Pass on the border between Poland and Slovakia on the Eastern Front of World War II between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in September–October 1944. It was part of the Soviet East Carpathian Strategic Offensive that also included the Carpathian-Uzhgorod Offensive. The operation's primary goal, to provide support for the Slovak rebellion, was not achieved, but it concluded the full liberation of the Ukraine in its modern borders by the occupation of the Subcarpathian region as a territory of the former Carpatho-Ukraine.

Wikipedia: Battle of the Dukla Pass

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