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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
The National Committee for a Free Germany was an anti-fascist political and military organisation formed in the Soviet Union during World War II, composed mostly of German defectors from the ranks of
Courland Pocket
…Gulf of Riga Date 9 October 1944 – 22 May 1945 Location Courland Peninsula, Latvia Result Free German/Soviet victory Belligerents Germany Soviet Union Free Germany Kurelis group Commanders and leaders Ferdinand Schörner Lothar Rendulic Heinrich von Vietinghoff Carl Hilpert Walter Krüger Ivan Bagramyan Andrey…
Members of the NKFD, including Hans-Günther van Hooven, Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel, Karl Hetz, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Erich Weinert and Luitpold Steidle.
Colonel Hans-Günther van Hooven, photographed at the BDO foundation ceremony
NKFD headquarters c. 1943–1945, promising Friede, Freiheit, Brot ("Peace, Freedom and Bread," a callback to Lenin's slogan of "peace, land, and bread")
![Grave of Lt. Horst Vieth [pl] killed in combat with Wehrmacht during the siege of Breslau](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Horst_Viedt_gr%C3%B3b.jpg/500px-Horst_Viedt_gr%C3%B3b.jpg)
Grave of Lt. Horst Vieth [pl] killed in combat with Wehrmacht during the siege of Breslau