Courland Pocket
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The Courland Pocket was a pocket located on the Courland Peninsula in Latvia on the Eastern Front of World War II from 9 October 1944 to 22 May 1945. The last battle with a regular German army unit to
Destroyed German equipment between Riga and Tukums
Stamp used in Courland pocket (1945)
German prisoners of war after the surrender, May 1945
German prisoners of the war captured in the pocket being marched through Riga, May 1945
Operation Hannibal
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Operation Hannibal was a German naval operation involving the evacuation by sea of German troops and civilians from the Courland Pocket, East Prussia, West Prussia and Pomerania from mid-January to Ma
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…detained all males between the ages of 16 and 60, and conducted widespread deforestation campaigns, burning tracts of forest to flush out resisters. Operation Hannibal Dallas, Gregor. (2006). 1945: The War That Never Ended. Yale: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10980-6…
Evacuation boats crossing the Baltic Sea
Civilians evacuating from Pillau by sea, January 1945
Refugees from Pillau embarking on a ship
Civilians fleeing the besieged city of Königsberg on board the seaplane tender Hans Albrecht Wedel