Battle of Memel
1945 battle on the Eastern Front of World War II / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Battle of Memel (disambiguation).
The Battle of Memel or the Siege of Memel (German: Erste Kurlandschlacht) was a battle which took place on the Eastern Front during World War II. The battle began when the Red Army launched its Memel offensive operation (Russian: Мемельская наступательная операция) in late 1944. The offensive drove remaining German forces in the area that is now Lithuania and Latvia into a small bridgehead in Klaipėda (Memel) and its port, leading to a three-month siege of that position.
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Part of the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||||
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Germany | Soviet Union | ||||||||
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Erhard Raus (Third Panzer Army) Hans Gollnick (XXVIII Corps) |
Hovhannes Bagramyan (1st Baltic Front) |
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The bridgehead was finally crushed as part of the subsequent Soviet East Prussian offensive in early 1945.