The Ruhr pocket was a battle of encirclement that took place in April 1945, on the Western Front near the end of World War II in Europe, in the Ruhr Area...

plan was the eradication of the Ruhr Pocket. Even before the encirclement had been completed, the Germans in the Ruhr had begun making attempts at a breakout...

The Ruhr (/ˈrʊər/ ROOR; German: Ruhrgebiet [ˈʁuːɐ̯ɡəˌbiːt] , also Ruhrpott German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːɐ̯pɔt] ), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes...

the Sieg River at Hennef. The division then entered the battle of the Ruhr pocket, crossing the Sieg River on 7 April, battling German Wehrmacht troops...

Ruhr Pocket. The Twelfth Army Group was tasked with reducing the pocket. On 3 April 8 turned 180 degrees in response to orders into the Ruhr Pocket and...

retreat across northwestern Germany, the division was trapped in the Ruhr Pocket and the remnants of the once powerful division were taken prisoner by...

isolated and captured by advancing Twelfth United States Army Group in the Ruhr Pocket. In April and May 1945, over 85,000 German troops were encircled and...

re-formed in France in 1944, fought in Western Europe and surrendered in the Ruhr pocket in 1945. On 17 November 1942, the Stab Nehring staff, assigned to the...

aftermath of the defeat of Army Group B and its encirclement in the Ruhr Pocket, Model took his own life on 21 April 1945. Otto Moritz Walter Model was...

under Montgomery's command had taken part in the encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket, liberated the Netherlands, and captured much of north-west Germany....

forced to surrender to the U.S. Ninth Army, having been trapped in the Ruhr Pocket. Remnants of the division continued to fight in the Harz mountains until...

involved in fighting in Arnhem, during the Rhine crossings and in the Ruhr Pocket with Army Group B. The 3rd and 4th Parachute divisions were formed in...

Belgium, and nearly thirty more in and around Haguenau, France, and the Ruhr Pocket in Germany. He was promoted to sergeant before Operation Market Garden...

surround the Ruhr Pocket in a double envelopment. In April, the 7th Armored Division completed their part of the encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket and captured...

Western Allies did so without a fight. For instance, in the battle of the Ruhr Pocket, there were about 10,000 fatalities on the German side (including prisoners...

Bulge"). Eventually, Army Group B surrendered on 17 April 1945 in the Ruhr pocket. Army Group B was initially created on 12 October 1939, when the former...

assigned to strike west from Kassel to break the ring encircling the Ruhr pocket. After launching a few small hopeless and unsuccessful attacks against...

collapsed in March 1945. The division's few survivors were pushed into the Ruhr Pocket where they surrendered to the Allies at the end of the war. In 1942,...

the Mons Pocket (1944) Siege of Bastogne, Belgium (1944) Battle of the Ruhr Pocket (1945) Battle of Berlin (1945) Six-Day War (1967) Battle of Khorramshahr...

and ended the war in the Ruhr Pocket in April. Parts of the already depleted division managed to break out from the Ruhr Pocket and was absorbed by the...

on 17 April 1945, during the latter stages of the encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket. The Second World War seemed to be lost for Germany. The Allied invasion...

soldiers of Germany's Army Group B were surrounded and captured in the Ruhr Pocket on 18 April, leaving the path open for US forces to reach Berlin. By...

the First Army trapped over 300,000 German troops in the Battle of Ruhr Pocket. A month later, Hodges' troops of the First Army met elements of the...

on the retreating Western Front until it was largely encircled in the Ruhr Pocket in April 1945. The 272nd Volksgrenadier Division was formed on 17 September...

biggest problems for Jagdtiger crewmen under Carius's command. At the Ruhr Pocket, two Jagdtiger commanders failed to attack an American armored column...

Army formed the northern arm of the envelopment of German forces in the Ruhr Pocket and on 4 April reverted to Omar Bradley's 12th Army Group. On 4 May 1945...

Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who committed suicide in the Ruhr Pocket on 21 April 1945. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron...

When the Allies closed the pincer, 300,000 Germans were captured in the Ruhr Pocket. The Americans then turned east, first meeting up with the Red Army at...

Essen, the Ruhr pocket underwent a significant reduction over the next weeks due to the allied advance. Eventually, by 15 April, the pocket had contracted...

(colonel) Hauser surrendered the division to the American forces in the Ruhr Pocket on April 15, 1945. Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (3 November 1939) & 1st...