Courland Pocket

When

9 Oct 1944 – 10 May 1945

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

57.00° N, 22.00° E

Description

1944 battle

War

World War II

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Encirclement of Axis forces in the Baltic region

The Courland Pocket was a pocket located on the Courland Peninsula in Latvia on the Eastern Front of World War II from 9 October 1944 to 22 May 1945. The last battle with a regular German army unit took place here on May 22, 1945.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Soviet forces reach the Baltic Sea coast in Lithuania, cutting off German Army Group North and creating the Courland Pocket”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der Kurland-Kessel wird geschlossen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “l’Armée rouge atteint la mer Baltique dans la région de Memel et coupe la retraite aux 26 divisions allemandes de Courlande”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Группа армий «Курляндия»”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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