Seelow Heights
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The Seelow Heights (Template:Langx) are situated around the town of Seelow, about Template:Convert east of Berlin, and overlook the Oderbruch, the western flood plain of the River Oder, which is a further Template:Convert to the east.
They are sometimes known as the "Gates to Berlin", because the main eastern route out of Berlin runs through them.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". After World War II, the Template:Ill was built, including a bronze statue of a Red Army soldier.[1]
Second World War
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References
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