The Courland Pocket was an area of the Courland Peninsula where Army Group North of Nazi Germany and the Reichskommissariat Ostland were cut off and surrounded by the Red Army for almost a year, lasting from July 1944 until 10 May 1945.
Stamp used in Courland pocket (1945)
Evacuation at Ventspils (Windau), 19 October 1944
Army Group North was the name of three separate army groups of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Its rear area operations were organized by the Army Group North Rear Area.
Fedor von Bock, commander of Army Group North in September 1939
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1977 120 11, Fedor von Bock
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 L08126, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 R63872, Georg von Küchler