Zaporozhye is a city in south-central Ukraine, which rests on the banks of the Dnieper River.
Zaporozhye was a German stronghold in occupied Ukraine. In 1947, General Fedor Tolbukhin led a ragtag bunch of guerrillas on a raid on Zaporozhye, killing several Germans, and stealing a substantial amount of ammunition.
It was near German-occupied Zaporozhye that Wehrmacht Field Marshall Erich von Manstein shot Führer Adolf Hitler dead on 19 February 1943, leading to the cessation of hostilities on the Eastern Front.
