Heiligenbeil Pocket
The Heiligenbeil Pocket or Heiligenbeil Cauldron (German: Heiligenbeiler Kessel) 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.
Alfred DannebaumBruno KarczewskiEdmund BlaurockErich RudnickErich SchneiderGustav-Adolf von Nostitz-WallwitzGünther SachsHans-Joachim KappisHeinz FinkeHelmut KroegHelmuth HufenbachHermann KremerKarl-Eric BertramLudwig SchütteRudolf ReichertRudolf SmolaSiegfried HaßTraugott KempasWalter BrüningWerner WolfWerner von BerckenWilhelm BeuttelWilhelm KubelWilhelm SchmalzXX Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
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Heiligenbeil Pocket
The Heiligenbeil Pocket or Heiligenbeil Cauldron (German: Heiligenbeiler Kessel) 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.
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Die Kesselschlacht von Heilige ...... en Haff eingeschlossen worden.
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La sacca di Braunsberg-Heilige ...... della seconda guerra mondiale.
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L’encerclement d’Heiligenbeil ...... du 26 janvier au 29 mars 1945.
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The Heiligenbeil Pocket or Hei ...... 6 January until 29 March 1945.
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128 planes (According to Soviet information)
50,000 captured
80,000 killed
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1945-03-29
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Soviet victory
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Die Kesselschlacht von Heilige ...... 26. Januar bis 29. März 1945.
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La sacca di Braunsberg-Heilige ...... della seconda guerra mondiale.
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L’encerclement d’Heiligenbeil ...... du 26 janvier au 29 mars 1945.
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The Heiligenbeil Pocket or Hei ...... 6 January until 29 March 1945.
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Encerclement d'Heiligenbeil
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Heiligenbeil Pocket
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Kesselschlacht von Heiligenbeil
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Sacca di Braunsberg-Heiligenbeil
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Heiligenbeil Pocket
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