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Heiligenbeil Pocket
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Heiligenbeil Pocket
The
Heiligenbeil Pocket
or
Heiligenbeil Cauldron
was the site of a major
encirclement
battle on the
Eastern Front
during the closing weeks of
World War II
, in which the
Wehrmacht
's
4th Army
was almost entirely destroyed during the Soviet Braunsberg Offensive Operation (13–22 March 1945). The
pocket
was located near
Heiligenbeil
in
East Prussia
in
eastern Germany
(now
Mamonovo
,
Kaliningrad Oblast
), and the battle, part of a broader Soviet offensive into the region of
East Prussia
, lasted from 26 January until 29 March 1945.
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