X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Georgy Zhukov


BMW 321

Albert Seidler, the man in charge of Eisenach motor bike production, demonstrated the 321 to Marshall Zhukov and secured from him an order for five new cars.

BMW 340

Albert Seidler, the man in charge of Eisenach motor bike production, demonstrated the smaller 321 model to Marshall Zhukov and secured from him an order for five new cars.

Boris Shtokolov

Georgy Zhukov, having heard his singing, said: "There are many guys like you in aviation, but in opera singing you are unique".


2nd Belorussian Front

General Georgy Zhukov concentrated his 1st Belorussian Front (1BF) which had been deployed along the Oder river from Frankfurt in the south to the Baltic, into an area in front of the Seelow Heights.

Hans-Georg von Friedeburg

He later signed on behalf of the Kriegsmarine, in Berlin on 8 May 1945, along with Colonel General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff for the Luftwaffe and Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel for the Wehrmacht, an instrument of surrender in the presence of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Red Army and other Allied representatives.


see also

1st Belorussian Front

Marshal Georgy Zhukov concentrated 1BF, which had been deployed along the Oder river from Frankfurt in the south to the Baltic, into an area in front of the Seelow Heights.