| Location |
Country |
Commandant |
Besiegers |
Date declared |
Date surrendered |
Information |
| Alderney |
British Crown dependencies |
Lieutenant Colonel
Schwalm •
|
Royal Navy |
|
16 May 1945 |
Contained until after general German surrender
See Occupation of the Channel Islands |
| Boulogne |
France |
Ferdinand Heim |
reinforced Canadian 3rd Division |
|
22 September 1944 |
Captured after a five day operation. See Operation Wellhit |
| Breslau |
Germany |
Karl Hanke |
6th Army |
25 July 1944 |
6 May 1945 |
See Siege of Breslau |
| Brest |
France |
Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke |
US Third Army |
|
19 September 1944 |
Captured after six week assault. See Battle for Brest |
| Budapest |
Hungary |
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch |
Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front |
1 December 1944 •
|
13 February 1945 |
Captured after 102 day long assault. See Siege of Budapest |
| Calais |
France |
Ludwig Schroeder |
Canadian 3rd Division |
|
1 October 1944 |
See Operation Undergo |
| Dieppe |
France |
|
Canadian 2nd Division |
|
1 September 1944 |
Evacuated before receipt of the relevant Fuehrer Order; liberated without opposition. See Operation Fusilade |
| Dunkirk |
France |
Friedrich Frisius |
1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade |
|
8 May 1945 |
Contained until general German surrender. See Siege of Dunkirk (1944) |
| Kolberg |
Germany |
Fritz Fullriede |
1st Belorussian Front |
November, 1944 |
14 March 1945 |
See Battle of Kolberg (1945) |
| Königsberg |
East Prussia, Germany |
Otto Lasch |
3rd Belorussian Front |
|
9 April 1945 |
See Battle of Königsberg |
| Küstrin |
Germany |
Heinrich-Friedrich Reinefarth, Adolf Raegener |
82nd Guards Rifle Division |
|
|
A small number (<1,000) of the German garrison reached German lines after a breakout during the night of March 29/30 1945. |
| Le Havre |
France |
Eberhard Wildermuth |
1st Canadian Army |
|
12 September 1944 |
Captured after 48 hour assault. See Operation Astonia. |
| Posen (now Poznań) |
Poland |
Ernst Mattern until 28 January 1945, then Ernst Gonell |
1st Belorussian Front |
|
23 February 1945 |
See Battle of Poznań (1945). |
| St Malo |
France |
Andreas von Aulock |
US Third Army |
19 January 1944 |
17 August 1944 |
Captured after two weeks |
| Warsaw |
Poland |
|
Soviet Red Army |
27 July 1944 |
17 January 1945 |
Captured hours after the withdrawal of German troops, in violation of Hitler's order to hold the "Fortress". See Festung Warschau |