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This is a nice find from the battlefield a Russian F1 hand grenade very nice condition relic which is the outer casing only which is empty and inert the metal case has no holes only some lighter surface rust and only some light pitting with lovely maker stamps on it all perfectly clear to see it has been nicely cleaned on it and the grenade is perfect for display or any collection. The grenade was recovered from the battlefield on the Seelow Heights in 1945 the opening battle for Berlin.
The Battle of the Seelow Heights was part of the Seelow-Berlin Offensive Operation (16 April-2 May 1945). A pitched battle, it was one of the last assaults on large entrenched defensive positions of the Second World War. It was fought over three days, from 16–19 April 1945. Close to one million Soviet soldiers of the 1st Belorussian Front (including 78,556 soldiers of the Polish 1st Army), commanded by Marshal Georgi Zhukov, attacked the position known as the "Gates of Berlin". They were opposed by about 110,000 soldiers of the German 9th Army commanded by General Theodor Busse, as part of the Army Group Vistula.