The Heiligenbeil Pocket or Heiligenbeil Cauldron (German: Kessel von Heiligenbeil) was the site of a major encirclement battle on the Eastern Front during...

encircled on the shore of the Vistula Lagoon in what became known as the Heiligenbeil Pocket. After bitter fighting, these units were finally overcome on 29 March...

The term Heiligenbeil can refer to: The German name of Mamonovo, Russia Heiligenbeil concentration camp built near Mamonovo Heiligenbeil Pocket, part of...

fighting for the Heiligenbeil Pocket. On the same date several units of the division would be rewarded for the taking of Heiligenbeil itself: the 480th...

Army 18th Army Soviet East Prussian Offensive Battle of Königsberg Heiligenbeil pocket Commander in Chief 27 January 1945: Generaloberst Dr. Lothar Rendulic...

pockets: one around Königsberg, one on the adjacent Sambia Peninsula, and one on the coast of the Vistula Lagoon to the south-west (the Heiligenbeil Pocket)...

parallel offensives of the 3rd Belorussian Front to the east The Heiligenbeil Pocket, the parallel defence of the German 4. Armee east of Elbing The Pomeranian...

Mamonovo (Russian: Мамоново, German: Heiligenbeil, is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, near the border with Poland. Population figures: 7,761 (2010...

January–February 1945 Battle of Poznań (1945) East Prussian Offensive Heiligenbeil Pocket Battle of Königsberg Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead Silesian Offensives...

during World War II. Hufenbach was killed on 27 March 1945 in the Heiligenbeil Pocket. He was posthumously promoted to Generalmajor and awarded the Knight's...

for the Kapelsche Veer began in the Netherlands. The battle of the Heiligenbeil Pocket began on the Eastern Front. The Przyszowice massacre began in Upper...

the Iron Cross. Nostitz-Wallwitz was wounded in March 1945 in the Heiligenbeil Pocket, he was evacuated to a hospital in Eckernförde and died on 31 May...

After a week of heavy fighting, its divisions were encircled in the Heiligenbeil pocket on the Baltic coast, where they were destroyed in March. The corps...

failed in their Caucasus Offensive. It was later destroyed in the Heiligenbeil pocket. Infantry Regiment 121 Infantry Regiment 122 Infantry Regiment 123...

Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 3rd Degree, for its role in the fighting for the Heiligenbeil Pocket. On April 28 the 35th and 41st Corps were engaged in heavy fighting...

Evacuated to East Prussia, the division fought in the so-called Heiligenbeil pocket, caught between the advancing Soviets and the Frisches Haff. Once...

and the 4th Army was again encircled in what became known as the Heiligenbeil pocket. For defying their orders, both Hoßbach and Reinhardt were relieved...

East Prussia in September 1944, but it was again destroyed in the Heiligenbeil Pocket in early 1945. The division was formed on 26 August 1939 in Dresden...

29 WWII: The Red Army almost destroys the German 4th Army, in the Heiligenbeil Pocket in East Prussia. The "Clash of Titans": George Mikan and Bob Kurland...

the Wehrmacht forces in East Prussia in what became known as the Heiligenbeil pocket. However, by March 1945, the 5th Guards Tank Army was being drawn...

under-strength division, which was pushed north and trapped in the Heiligenbeil pocket, being reassigned to the Fourth Army. In February it held the perimeter...

of the Philippines, in Maasin, Southern Leyte. The battle of the Heiligenbeil Pocket ended in Soviet victory. The Deutsch Schützen massacre occurred when...

East Prussian Offensive from January 1945. It was encircled in the Heiligenbeil Pocket on the Baltic coast, and destroyed there in March. General der Artillerie...

progress, eventually earning its third Order after the battle for the Heiligenbeil Pocket. After the East Prussian campaign the 31st Army was railed south...

Kursk Battle of Smolensk (1943) Operation Bagration East Prussian Offensive Heiligenbeil Pocket Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves...

Vistula-Oder Offensive trapped the Hermann Göring Panzerkorps in the Heiligenbeil Pocket along with the rest of the 4th Army. In February, the Heer's élite...

– 12 February 1945 Braunsberg offensive 13–22 March 1945 German Heiligenbeil Pocket Königsberg offensive 6–9 April 1945 Samland offensive 13–25 April...

the capture of Shlobiten and then Braunsberg on 20 March in the Heiligenbeil Pocket. On 2 April, the 66th was withdrawn to the reserve of the front at...

(1943) Operation Bagration Lublin–Brest Offensive East Prussian Offensive Heiligenbeil Pocket Commanders Notable commanders Rudolf Freiherr von Roman...

in the elimination of German forces that had been trapped in the Heiligenbeil Pocket. On March 25 the Army advanced up to 6km and captured the towns of...