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In October 1813, the combined allied armies of Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, Saxony, and Württemberg met and defeated the French Grand Armee under Napoleon Bonaparte at the German city of Leipzig, forcing him to retreat and hastening his eventual abdication and exile to the island of Elba.
During World War II, Leipzig was repeatedly attacked by British as well as American air raids. The most severe attack was launched by the Royal Air Force in the early hours of 4 December 1943 and claimed more than 1,800 lives.
Leipzig saw several heavy air raids during the Second World War. When US troops entered the city in April 1945, they found Leipzig 40 to 60 percent destroyed. The city center and the suburbs near the center were particularly hardly damaged.
From the beginning of the Nazi Party 's rise to power in 1933, to the beginning of World War II in 1939, Leipzig was an important city to the regime. Thousands of Jews were transported to and from this city as Adolf Hitler 's plans for the Jewish people evolved.
23 mar 2019 · A 3rd Armored Division crewman with a .30-caliber machine gun mounted. on an M3 “Stuart” light tank fires on enemy troops in the woods flanking a. highway near Leipzig, April 17, 1945. Although the war was nearly over, some. Germans stubbornly resisted, preferring death to dishonor.
During the Second World War (from 1939 to 1945), at least, 75,000 people were deported to Leipzig to work as forced labourers. They came from all countries which the German Wehrmacht had occupied and, in particular, from Poland and the Soviet Union.
Germany. A large raid to attack targets in the Leipzig, Germany area by the US 8th Air Force with 1,129 B-17 Flying Fortress, including those from the 306th Bomb Group from RAF Thurleigh, and B-24 Liberator bombers and more than 700 escorts was met by a Gefechtsverband, led by Major Walther Dahl.
