what the frigidity frack happened over here?!
What the frigidity frack happened over here?!
Liam Torres
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Chase Ross
I would like to know also.
Robert Ross
Several thousands of German soldiers got stuck there.
The Allies really didn't have any way to storm t as they were cut off form supplies and out of the way to Poland, so they just let them be.
Dylan Barnes
Liam Powell
Oh, I though it was Kaliningrad.
BTW what happened in Kaliningrad for the Russians to keep it?
Josiah Fisher
Well, to be honest, the Soviets could have stormed it, it just wasn't worth the trouble. Similar to the Bordeaux pocket on the other side.
Jaxson Parker
>Well, to be honest, the Soviets could have stormed it
they did and they failed so they stopped trying after 200 000 casualties
Austin Rodriguez
200,000 men is chump change for the Soviets on the Eastern Front. Bagration, one of their biggest victories, cost them close to 4 times that. If they were really willing to reallocate assets from their thrusts across Poland and into central Germany, they could have battered it down, and you and I both know it.
Asher Russell
When they asked soldiers who had fought there they told the interviewers they were slowing down the commie bastards so that people could escape to non communist countries and some of these men after the war continued fighting as resistance fighters
Brayden Adams
They soviets thought that it was a giant concentration camp. Cortland Army which was formed from remnants of Army group North was never defeated and came out of the war relatively unscathed. Only after Berlin fell and their former Officer was called in to assure the men they would not be starved to death did the Army surrender and many did go to gulags work camps up until the mid 50s. Some fled to the forests and continued to resist up to a few years after the war ended. The Baltics still honor their memory to the dismay of some Russians.
Carson Hill
>What happened
MUH WONDER WEAPONS
Jaxson Wright
Basically Hitler kept troops in what is known as the Courland Peninsula in Latvia after it was cut off from the rest of Germany. Hitler saw it as a easily defendable position that would draw away and tie down Soviet forces. Seeing as it stood until the very end of the war and the soviets suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, I would say it was actually a good decision on Hitlers part.
Eli Hall
WTF. letting a huge force get trapped is not a good idea.
Hitler was crazy in the last months of the war
Camden James
My understanding based on A World At Arms was that the kriegsmarine made the case to H-dawg that it was vital to hold that area and keep the Baltic under primarily German control so they could properly test, train, and launch the latest u-boats and starve the anglo that germany might swing east again and... and... and...
It was stupid and pointless but apparently it made ol' Adolf hesitate just long enough to get many thousands of poor bastards trapped in Latvia.
Wyatt Ortiz
He needed a good distraction while he skipped off to Argentina.
Zachary Diaz
It did serve its purpose in tying down lots of Soviet forces until the end of the war. Although the German forces there could've been used in the defense of mainland Germany.
Josiah Reed
"Exile" East Prussians elsewhere, move in R*ssians.
Aaron Jackson
Well when Army Group Center got completely smashed by Operation Bagration, Army Group North was stuck in the Baltic. The Soviets did work on slowly eliminating the pocket, but they didn't go out of their way to destroy it because the focus for the rest of the war was elsewhere.
Jaxson Sanders
It was never cut off. The Germans maintained naval superiority of the Baltic up until the end of the war. They used it to frerry in supplies and equipment to the pocket. Even after Berlin fell the pocket only became smaller by just a few kilometers.
Brody Richardson
Where did you even find a vietnamese map of the invasion of Operation Bagration?
Kayden Lopez
It's like the 4th result for a google image search "Operation Bagration Map."
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Benjamin Fisher
>Bagration happens
>Army Group Center is completely smashed to pieces
>Army Group North tries to retreat but gets cut off from the forces in the Courland Pocket
>Hitler instead of evacuating the forces in the pocket and using them in Battle of Berlin insists that they defend the position at all costs because it's the last piece of Lebensraum he has
>Soviets try to eliminate the pocket, but the germans are well supplied and in a good defensive position
>most of the Soviet attempts to clear the pocket fail with attrocious casualties
>they just focus on other fronts instead
Battles happened there all the time - see en.wikipedia.org
because Stalin was determined to clear out all the Germans from anywhere, but they just never succeeded so the vatniks play it out like they just let sit there.