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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festung | ||
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_World_War_II_strongholds |
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| Location | Country | Commandant | Besiegers | Date declared | Date surrendered | Information |
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| Alderney | British Crown dependencies | Lieutenant Colonel Schwalm • | Royal Navy | 16 May 1945 | Contained until after general German surrender See Occupation of the Channel Islands |
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| 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 |
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