What the records say
- When
- 20 Mar 1917
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 49.50° N, 2.83° E
- Description
- German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, 1917
Operation Alberich
German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, 1917
Operation Alberich was the code name of a German military operation in France during the First World War. Two salients had been formed during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 between Arras and Saint-Quentin and from Saint-Quentin to Noyon. Alberich was planned as a strategic withdrawal to new positions on the shorter and more easily defended Hindenburg Line.
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