Baltic operation
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The Baltic strategic defensive operation encompassed the operations of the Red Army from 22 June to 9 July 1941 conducted over the territories of Soviet-occupied Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in resp
German troops after crossing the Neman (Memel) into the Lithuanian SSR, 22 June 1941
German soldiers and local women in Riga, Latvia
Erich Hoepner
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Erich Kurt Richard Hoepner was a German general during World War II. An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare, he was a Wehrmacht Heer army corps commander at the beginning of the war,
Hoepner in 1939
Hoepner with Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb in 1941
Hoepner (right) with commander of SS Polizei Division, Walter Krüger, in October 1941
Hoepner at the Volksgerichtshof