✦ History

Part of Eastern Front (World War II)

Heiligenbeil Pocket

January 26 – March 29, 1945 · East Prussia

Result Soviet victory

Soviet armies trapped the German Fourth Army against the Baltic coast in East Prussia. Its forces were largely destroyed, though some were evacuated by sea.

On the map Contemporaries

Axis powers

Allies of World War II

Germany
Soviet Union
Friedrich Hoßbach military commander
Konstantin Rokossovsky military commander Aleksandr Vasilevsky military commander

Units

XX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 102nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 170th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 50th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
130th Rifle Division 137th Rifle Division 152nd Rifle Division 153rd Rifle Division (1943–1946) 154th Rifle Division 157th Rifle Division 159th Rifle Division (1943–1946) 169th Rifle Division 170th Rifle Division 194th Rifle Division 217th Rifle Division 250th Rifle Division 371st Rifle Division 48th Guards Rifle Division 50th Guards Rifle Division 83rd Guards Rifle Division 84th Guards Rifle Division 88th Rifle Division 96th Guards Rifle Division 97th Rifle Division