What the records say
- When
- 18 Apr 1945
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 51.47° N, 7.55° E
- Description
- battle of encirclement that took place in April 1945, on the Western Front near the end of the second World War, in the Ruhr Area of Germany
- War
- World War II
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les forces allemandes encerclées dans la poche de la Ruhr capitulent”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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