After devastating concentrated fire by Soviet troops, the Seelow Hights were littered with the corpses of German soldiers. The remaining Wehrmacht units that had been deployed 70 km east of the Berlin suburbs to oppose the Soviet forces were overrun.

   The desperate German counterattack in the Seelow Heights led to several days of heavy fighting on key fronts. The Seelow Heights were littered with dead German soldiers after devastating concentrated fire by the Soviet forces. The remaining Wehrmacht units that had been deployed against the Soviet forces on the eastern outskirts of Berlin were overrun. Many German soldiers believed that if the Soviets would not surrender or accept prisoners of war, they would die anyway, so it was better to die fighting. Suspected deserters and losers were summarily executed by the SS.

　The Battle of the Seelow Heights, about 70 km east of the capital Berlin, was fought on the Eastern Front at the end of World War II, with fighting breaking out from April 16 to April 19, 1945. The battle saw Soviet forces invade and occupy the Zerow Heights, located east of Berlin. The Zerow Heights, known as the Gates of Berlin, were attacked by the Soviet Army's First Belarusian Front. The battle lasted three days and was extremely fierce as the Germans tried to defend their capital, Berlin. The German positions were finally crushed on April 19, opening the way to Berlin for the Soviet forces.

　At 3:00 a.m. on April 16, a massive bombardment of the German positions began. The Soviet troops suffered heavy casualties from the concentrated bombardment by the Germans on the swampy ground, and from the night of April 16, the Soviet artillery invaded. on the morning of April 17, a massive bombardment began, and the Soviet forces against the Zerow Highlands began a gradual advance against the German garrison. The Soviets launched another offensive on April 18 and began to break through the German lines with heavy casualties. By evening, the Soviets had reached the Germans' final line of defense. The Soviets began to bypass the Zerow Heights to the north, and the Soviet forces that surged forward on April 19 overwhelmed the Germans' last line of defense. The Germans were forced out of position and began to retreat westward toward Berlin. With the road to Berlin now open, the Soviet forces began a rapid advance toward Berlin.

　In the Battle of the Seelow Heights, the Soviet forces lost more than 30,000 men killed in action, while German casualties totaled about 12,000. With the defeat of the Germans, the last organized German defense between the Soviets and Berlin collapsed. Soviet forces besieged the German capital Berlin on April 23 and began the final battle of Berlin, which fell on May 2, ending World War II with the unconditional surrender of the Western Front on May 7 and the Eastern Front on May 9.