✦ History

Ruhr Pocket

April 18, 1945 · Ruhr Region

Result Allied victory

American armies encircled German Army Group B in the Ruhr industrial area. More than 300,000 German soldiers surrendered, and Field Marshal Model killed himself.

On the map Contemporaries

United States

Nazi Germany

United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Omar Bradley military commander Courtney Hodges military commander Bernard Montgomery military commander
Albert Kesselring military commander Walter Model military commander Josef Harpe military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties
10,000
Killed
1,500
Wounded
8,000
Missing
500

Units

12th Army Group Ninth Army (United States) 21st Army Group Fifteenth United States Army First Army (United States)
Army Group B 15th Army (Wehrmacht) 1st Parachute Army 5th Panzer Army 116th Panzer Division 16th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 176th Infantry Division 180th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 2nd Flak Division 3rd Parachute Division 4th Flak Division 5th Parachute Division 9th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

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