Heiligenbeil Pocket

Heiligenbeil Pocket
Part of the East Prussian Offensive in the Eastern Front of World War II

Soviet troops enter Frauenburg, 9 February (?) 1945
Date26 January – 29 March 1945
Location
Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
 Germany  Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Nazi Germany Friedrich Hossbach (4th Army until January 29)
Nazi Germany Friedrich Müller (4th Army from January 29)
Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky
(2nd Belorussian Front)
Soviet Union Ivan Chernyakhovsky
(3rd Belorussian Front until February 18 – KIA that day)
Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky
(3rd Belorussian Front from February 19)
Strength
?150,000 ?
Casualties and losses
80,000 killed
50,000 captured
605 tanks
128 planes (According to Soviet information) [1]
unknown

The Heiligenbeil Pocket or Heiligenbeil Cauldron (German: Kessel von Heiligenbeil) was the site of a major encirclement battle on the Eastern Front during the closing weeks of World War II, in which the Wehrmacht's 4th Army was almost entirely destroyed during the Soviet Braunsberg Offensive Operation (13–22 March 1945). The pocket was located near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia in eastern Germany (now Mamonovo, Kaliningrad Oblast), and the battle, part of a broader Soviet offensive into the region of East Prussia, lasted from 26 January until 29 March 1945.

  1. ^ "Наша Победа. День за днем - проект РИА Новости". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2010-06-20.

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