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href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_of_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Front of World War II">Eastern Front of World War II</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Czo%C5%82g_niemiecki_w_Go%C5%82dapii_(2-910).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Czo%C5%82g_niemiecki_w_Go%C5%82dapii_%282-910%29.jpg/220px-Czo%C5%82g_niemiecki_w_Go%C5%82dapii_%282-910%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="305" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Czo%C5%82g_niemiecki_w_Go%C5%82dapii_%282-910%29.jpg/330px-Czo%C5%82g_niemiecki_w_Go%C5%82dapii_%282-910%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Czo%C5%82g_niemiecki_w_Go%C5%82dapii_%282-910%29.jpg/440px-Czo%C5%82g_niemiecki_w_Go%C5%82dapii_%282-910%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2540" data-file-height="3520" /></a></span><br />German <a href="/wiki/Panther_tank" title="Panther tank">Panther tank</a> in <a href="/wiki/Goldap" class="mw-redirect" title="Goldap">Goldap</a>, November 1944</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table style="width:100%;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;display:inline-table"><tbody><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Date</th><td>16–30 October 1944</td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Location</th><td><div class="location"><a href="/wiki/East_Prussia" title="East Prussia">East Prussia</a>, Germany</div></td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Result</th><td class="status"> German victory</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Belligerents</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <span data-sort-value="Germany"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders and leaders</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <style 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/War_Ensign_of_Germany_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-War_Ensign_of_Germany_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Erhard_Raus" title="Erhard Raus">Erhard Raus</a></li></ul></div></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union"><img alt="Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Chernyakhovsky" title="Ivan Chernyakhovsky">Ivan Chernyakhovsky</a></li><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union"><img alt="Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kuzma_Galitsky" title="Kuzma Galitsky">Kuzma Galitsky</a></li><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union"><img alt="Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Shafranov" title="Pyotr Shafranov">Pyotr Shafranov</a></li><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union"><img alt="Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Luchinsky" title="Alexander Luchinsky">Alexander Luchinsky</a></li><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union"><img alt="Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Lyudnikov" title="Ivan Lyudnikov">Ivan Lyudnikov</a></li><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union"><img alt="Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Glagolev" title="Vasily Glagolev">Vasily Glagolev</a></li><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union"><img alt="Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Timofey_Khryukin" title="Timofey Khryukin">Timofey Khryukin</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Units involved</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany"><img alt="Nazi Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/War_Ensign_of_Germany_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg/23px-War_Ensign_of_Germany_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/War_Ensign_of_Germany_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg/35px-War_Ensign_of_Germany_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/War_Ensign_of_Germany_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-War_Ensign_of_Germany_%281938%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Centre" title="Army Group Centre">Army Group Centre</a></b>: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/4th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="4th Army (Wehrmacht)">4th Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Panzer_Army" title="3rd Panzer Army">3rd Panzer Army</a></li></ul></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union"><img alt="Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/3rd_Belorussian_Front" title="3rd Belorussian Front">3rd Belorussian Front</a></b>: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/11th_Guards_Army" title="11th Guards Army">11th Guards Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="5th Army (Soviet Union)">5th Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="28th Army (Soviet Union)">28th Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/39th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="39th Army (Soviet Union)">39th Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/31st_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="31st Army (Soviet Union)">31st Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1st_Air_Army" title="1st Air Army">1st Air Army</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Strength</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> 318 tanks, assault guns and tank destroyers<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007612_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007612-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> 377,300 men<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007616_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007616-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Casualties and losses</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <p>16,236 men<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007616_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007616-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd>6,801 killed or missing</dd> <dd>9,435 wounded</dd></dl> 115 tanks and assault guns destroyed<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007616_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007616-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <p>79,527 men<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007616_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007616-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd>16,819 killed or missing</dd> <dd>62,708 wounded</dd></dl> 914 tanks and assault guns destroyed<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007616_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrieserSchmiderSchönherrSchreiber2007616-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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operations</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Doppelkopf" title="Operation Doppelkopf"><i>Doppelkopf</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Solstice" title="Operation Solstice"><i>Solstice</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Hannibal" title="Operation Hannibal"><i>Hannibal</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Eastern_Front" style="margin:0;float:right;clear:right;width:25.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1em;;padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><link 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href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt>Naval warfare</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea_campaigns_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="Baltic Sea campaigns (1939–1945)">Baltic Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Sea_campaigns_(1941%E2%80%931944)" title="Black Sea campaigns (1941–1944)">Black Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arctic_naval_operations_of_World_War_II" title="Arctic naval operations of World War II">Arctic Ocean</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1941</dt></dl> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Barbarossa</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Defense_of_Brest_Fortress" title="Defense of Brest Fortress">Brest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bia%C5%82ystok%E2%80%93Minsk" title="Battle of Białystok–Minsk">Białystok–Minsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_operation" title="Baltic operation">1st Baltic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brody_(1941)" title="Battle of Brody (1941)">Brody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_M%C3%BCnchen" title="Operation München">Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Smolensk_(1941)" title="Battle of Smolensk (1941)">1st Smolensk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Uman" title="Battle of Uman">Uman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Odessa" title="Siege of Odessa">Odessa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1941)" title="Battle of Kiev (1941)">1st Kiev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_evacuation_of_Tallinn" title="Soviet evacuation of Tallinn">Tallinn</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad" title="Siege of Leningrad">Leningrad</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sea_of_Azov" title="Battle of the Sea of Azov">Sea of Azov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Kharkov" title="First Battle of Kharkov">1st Kharkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crimean_campaign" title="Crimean campaign">1st Crimea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Sevastopol_(1941%E2%80%931942)" title="Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)">Sevastopol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rostov_(1941)" title="Battle of Rostov (1941)">Rostov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Gorky_in_World_War_II" title="Bombing of Gorky in World War II">Gorky</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow" title="Battle of Moscow">Moscow</a></b></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continuation_War" title="Continuation War">Finland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Kerch_Peninsula" title="Battle of the Kerch Peninsula">Kerch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940%E2%80%931944_insurgency_in_Chechnya" title="1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya">Chechnya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aerial_warfare_during_Operation_Barbarossa" title="Aerial warfare during Operation Barbarossa">Air war 1941</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1942</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lyuban" title="Battle of Lyuban">Lyuban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barvenkovo%E2%80%93Lozovaya_offensive" title="Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive">Barvenkovo–Lozovaya</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Rzhev" title="Battles of Rzhev">Rzhev</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toropets%E2%80%93Kholm_offensive" title="Toropets–Kholm offensive">Toropets–Kholm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demyansk_Pocket" title="Demyansk Pocket">Demyansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kholm_Pocket" title="Kholm Pocket">Kholm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Bamberg" title="Operation Bamberg">Bamberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Kharkov" title="Second Battle of Kharkov">2nd Kharkov</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Case_Blue" title="Case Blue">Case Blue</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caucasus" title="Battle of the Caucasus">Caucasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rzhev,_summer_1942" title="Battle of Rzhev, summer 1942">Rzhev–Sychyovka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinyavino_offensive_(1942)" title="Sinyavino offensive (1942)">Sinyavino</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Stalingrad</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Velikiye_Luki" title="Battle of Velikiye Luki">Velikiye Luki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Mars" title="Operation Mars"><i>Mars</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Little_Saturn" title="Operation Little Saturn"><i>Little Saturn</i></a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1943</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Iskra" title="Operation Iskra"><i>Iskra</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ostrogozhsk%E2%80%93Rossosh_offensive" title="Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive">Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voronezh%E2%80%93Kharkov_offensive" title="Voronezh–Kharkov offensive">Voronezh–Kharkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Polar_Star" title="Operation Polar Star"><i>Polar Star</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Kharkov" title="Third Battle of Kharkov">3rd Kharkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Gorky_in_World_War_II#June_1943" title="Bombing of Gorky in World War II">Gorky Blitz</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk" title="Battle of Kursk">Kursk</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donbas_strategic_offensive_(July_1943)" title="Donbas strategic offensive (July 1943)">1st Donbas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgorod%E2%80%93Kharkov_offensive_operation" title="Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation">Belgorod-Kharkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donbas_strategic_offensive_(August_1943)" title="Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)">2nd Donbas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smolensk_operation" title="Smolensk operation">2nd Smolensk</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lenino" title="Battle of Lenino">Lenino</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Dnieper" title="Battle of the Dnieper">Dnieper</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nevel_(1943)" title="Battle of Nevel (1943)">Nevel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1943)" title="Battle of Kiev (1943)">2nd Kiev</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1944</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dnieper%E2%80%93Carpathian_offensive" title="Dnieper–Carpathian offensive">Dnieper–Carpathian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leningrad%E2%80%93Novgorod_offensive" title="Leningrad–Novgorod offensive">Leningrad–Novgorod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Narva_(1944)" title="Battle of Narva (1944)">Narva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crimean_offensive" title="Crimean offensive">2nd Crimea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Jassy%E2%80%93Kishinev_offensive" title="First Jassy–Kishinev offensive">1st Jassy–Kishinev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vyborg%E2%80%93Petrozavodsk_offensive" title="Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive">Karelia</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Operation_Bagration" title="Operation Bagration">Bagration</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lvov-Sandomierz_Offensive" title="Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive">Lvov–Sandomierz</a></li> <li><i><a 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title="Vistula–Oder offensive">Vistula–Oder</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Carpathian_offensive" title="Western Carpathian offensive">Western Carpathian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Prussian_offensive" title="East Prussian offensive">East Prussia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silesian_offensives" title="Silesian offensives">Silesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Breslau" title="Siege of Breslau">Breslau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Solstice" title="Operation Solstice"><i>Solstice</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Pomeranian_offensive" title="East Pomeranian offensive">East Pomerania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Spring_Awakening" title="Operation Spring Awakening">Lake Balaton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moravia%E2%80%93Ostrava_offensive" title="Moravia–Ostrava offensive">Moravia–Ostrava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vienna_offensive" title="Vienna offensive">Vienna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bratislava%E2%80%93Brno_offensive" title="Bratislava–Brno offensive">Bratislava–Brno</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin" title="Battle of Berlin">Berlin</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prague_offensive" title="Prague offensive">Prague</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prague_uprising" title="Prague uprising">Prague uprising</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div> <p>The <b>Gumbinnen Operation</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-glantz_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-glantz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also known as the <b>Goldap Operation</b> (or <b>Goldap-Gumbinnen Operation</b>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Гумбиннен-Гольдапская наступательная операция</span>), was a <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> offensive on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a> late in 1944, in which forces of the <a href="/wiki/3rd_Belorussian_Front" title="3rd Belorussian Front">3rd Belorussian Front</a> attempted to penetrate the borders of <a href="/wiki/East_Prussia" title="East Prussia">East Prussia</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Planning">Planning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gumbinnen_Operation&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Planning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The operation was planned as a result of the success of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Memel" title="Battle of Memel">Memel Offensive Operation</a> to the north. The troops of the 1st Baltic and 3rd Belorussian Fronts had succeeded in pushing the <a href="/wiki/3rd_Panzer_Army" title="3rd Panzer Army">Third Panzer Army</a> back to the East Prussian border, surrounding the city of <a href="/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da" title="Klaipėda">Memel</a> and reaching the shore of the <a href="/wiki/Curonian_Lagoon" title="Curonian Lagoon">Curonian Lagoon</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Stavka" title="Stavka">Stavka</a></i> permitted Chernyakhovsky to further exploit this success by attacking along the <a href="/wiki/Gusev,_Kaliningrad_Oblast" title="Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast">Gumbinnen</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chernyakhovsk" title="Chernyakhovsk">Insterburg</a> – <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg" title="Königsberg">Königsberg</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Kaliningrad" title="Kaliningrad">Kaliningrad</a>) axis deep into <a href="/wiki/East_Prussia" title="East Prussia">East Prussia</a>. </p><p>Chernyakhovsky's plan involved using the <a href="/wiki/11th_Guards_Army" title="11th Guards Army">11th Guards</a> and <a href="/wiki/5th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="5th Army (Soviet Union)">5th</a> Armies to break open the German defensive lines, before pushing through exploitation forces from the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Guards_Tank_Corps" title="2nd Guards Tank Corps">2nd Guards Tank Corps</a> and <a href="/wiki/28th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="28th Army (Soviet Union)">28th Army</a>. The <a href="/wiki/31st_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="31st Army (Soviet Union)">31st</a> and <a href="/wiki/39th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="39th Army (Soviet Union)">39th</a> Armies would advance on the flanks of the main force. </p><p>The opposing German forces, from the Third Panzer and <a href="/wiki/4th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="4th Army (Wehrmacht)">Fourth</a> Armies, were aided by the presence of substantial fortifications, and had been heavily reinforced. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deployments">Deployments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gumbinnen_Operation&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Deployments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wehrmacht"><i>Wehrmacht</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gumbinnen_Operation&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Wehrmacht"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Centre" title="Army Group Centre">Army Group Centre</a> (Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Georg-Hans_Reinhardt" title="Georg-Hans Reinhardt">Georg-Hans Reinhardt</a>) <ul><li>Southern flank of <a href="/wiki/3rd_Panzer_Army" title="3rd Panzer Army">Third Panzer Army</a> (Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Erhard_Raus" title="Erhard Raus">Erhard Raus</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/XXXX_Panzer_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="XXXX Panzer Corps (Germany)">XXXX Panzer Corps</a> (General <a href="/wiki/Sigfrid_Henrici" title="Sigfrid Henrici">Sigfrid Henrici</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/IX_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="IX Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">IX Corps</a> (General <a href="/wiki/Rolf_Wuthmann" title="Rolf Wuthmann">Rolf Wuthmann</a>)</li></ul></li> <li>Northern flank of <a href="/wiki/4th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="4th Army (Wehrmacht)">Fourth Army</a> (General of the Infantry <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Ho%C3%9Fbach" class="mw-redirect" title="Friedrich Hoßbach">Friedrich Hoßbach</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/XXVII_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="XXVII Corps (Germany)">XXVII Corps</a> (General <a href="/wiki/Maximilian_Felzmann" title="Maximilian Felzmann">Maximilian Felzmann</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/XXXXI_Panzer_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="XXXXI Panzer Corps (Germany)">XXXXI Panzer Corps</a> (General <a href="/wiki/Helmuth_Weidling" title="Helmuth Weidling">Helmuth Weidling</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fallschirm-Panzer_Division_1_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" class="mw-redirect" title="Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring">Fallschirm-Panzerkorps Hermann Göring</a> (Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Schmalz" title="Wilhelm Schmalz">Wilhelm Schmalz</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VI_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="VI Corps (Germany)">VI Corps</a> (General <a href="/wiki/Horst_Gro%C3%9Fmann" title="Horst Großmann">Horst Großmann</a>)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Red_Army">Red Army</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gumbinnen_Operation&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Red Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Belorussian_Front" title="3rd Belorussian Front">3rd Belorussian Front</a> (General <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Chernyakhovsky" title="Ivan Chernyakhovsky">Ivan Chernyakhovsky</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/11th_Guards_Army" title="11th Guards Army">11th Guards Army</a> (Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Kuzma_Galitsky" title="Kuzma Galitsky">Kuzma Galitsky</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Guards_Tank_Corps" title="2nd Guards Tank Corps">2nd Guards Tank Corps</a> (Major General <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Burdeinei" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexei Burdeinei">Alexei Burdeinei</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="5th Army (Soviet Union)">5th Army</a> (Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Shafranov" title="Pyotr Shafranov">Pyotr Shafranov</a> for Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Nikolay_Ivanovich_Krylov" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov">Nikolay Krylov</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/28th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="28th Army (Soviet Union)">28th Army</a> (Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Luchinsky" title="Alexander Luchinsky">Alexander Luchinsky</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/39th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="39th Army (Soviet Union)">39th Army</a> (Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Lyudnikov" title="Ivan Lyudnikov">Ivan Lyudnikov</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/31st_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="31st Army (Soviet Union)">31st Army</a> (Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Glagolev" title="Vasily Glagolev">Vasily Glagolev</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1st_Air_Army" title="1st Air Army">1st Air Army</a> (Colonel General of Aviation <a href="/wiki/Timofey_Khryukin" title="Timofey Khryukin">Timofey Khryukin</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Offensive">Offensive</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gumbinnen_Operation&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Offensive"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 16 October, the 5th and 11th Guards Armies went onto the offensive and initially penetrated some 11 km into the German defensive belt. The flanking armies commenced operations the next day, when units of the 11th Guards Army had already crossed the East Prussian border. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Goldap1944.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d1/Goldap1944.jpg/220px-Goldap1944.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d1/Goldap1944.jpg/330px-Goldap1944.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Goldap1944.jpg 2x" data-file-width="371" data-file-height="269" /></a><figcaption>German troops on the outskirts of Gołdap, retaken on 3 November 1944</figcaption></figure> <p>The Soviet troops ran into extremely strong resistance. It took them four days to penetrate the initial tactical defenses, and the second defense line was so strong that Chernyakhovsky was compelled to commit the 2nd Guards Tank Corps to break it. Casualties were extremely heavy. </p><p>On 20 October, the second line was ruptured by the 11th Guards Army and 2nd Guards Tank Corps east of Gumbinnen, defended by the guns of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=18._Flak-Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="18. Flak-Division (page does not exist)">18th Anti-Aircraft Division</a> and the <a href="/wiki/1st_Fallschirm-Panzer_Division_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring">Fallschirm-Panzerdivision Hermann Göring</a>, which had been redeployed in the area to counter the Soviet advance. On 21 October, the Soviet reserve, the 28th Army, was committed, but the offensive in the north was fought to a standstill in the region of <a href="/wiki/Nesterov" title="Nesterov">Ebenrode</a> because of effective German counterattacks. </p><p>Gumbinnen was taken by 22 October but was retaken by German forces on 24 October after the Germans had committed the <a href="/wiki/5th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="5th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">5th Panzer Division</a>, and <a href="/wiki/German_heavy_tank_battalions" class="mw-redirect" title="German heavy tank battalions">Heavy Panzer Detachment 505</a> (equipped with <a href="/wiki/Tiger_II" title="Tiger II">Tiger IIs</a>). Also, <a href="/wiki/Mayakovskoye" title="Mayakovskoye">Nemmersdorf</a>, on the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Angrapa_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Angrapa River">Angrapa River</a>, was taken by units of the 2nd Guards Tank Corps on 21 October but was retaken by German forces on 23 October. </p><p>Units of 11th Guards Army found themselves cut off in the area of Großwaltersdorf and were involved in intense fighting. In the meantime, the Germans had pressed more reserves, including the <a href="/wiki/102nd_Panzer_Brigade" title="102nd Panzer Brigade">102nd Panzer</a> and <a href="/wiki/F%C3%BChrer_Grenadier_Brigade" title="Führer Grenadier Brigade">Führer Grenadier</a> Brigades into counterattacks at <a href="/wiki/Go%C5%82dap" title="Gołdap">Goldap</a>, on the southern sector of the Soviet penetration. The town was retaken on 25 October. </p><p>The Soviet attacks continued until 27 October, as the flanking armies sought to close up to the 11th Guards Army. </p><p>There was more fighting in the operation's immediate aftermath: on 28 October, the 31st Army retook Gołdap in a surprise attack. The town was again taken by the 5th Panzer Division, which was redeployed from the Gumbinnen area on 3 November. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gumbinnen_Operation&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Prussian_Offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="East Prussian Offensive">East Prussian Offensive</a>, in which the Front renewed its attack into East Prussia the following January, this time successfully.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gumbinnen_Operation&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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