Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1945 i whakahaua te ope taua e Lieutenant General Vasily Chuikov. He wāhanga tēnei o te 1st Belorussian Front a Marshal Zhukov. Ko Poznań tētahi o ngā tāone i riro i te ope taua i tōna haerenga ki te uru, i riro ai i te ope taua
i whakaraupapahia i te marama o Hānuere-Hui-te-rangi 1945.