The Courland Pocket formed in late 1944 as Army Group North attempted to retreat from the Leningrad Region and the Baltic States. The Soviet Red Army trapped them in Latvia and lay siege to them until the end of the war. This documentary video uses …
The Courland Pocket formed in late 1944 as Army Group North attempted to retreat from the Leningrad Region and the Baltic States. The Soviet Red Army trapped them in Latvia and lay siege to them until the end of the war. This documentary video uses maps and unit animations to detail the events on the operational level - because that's what BATTLESTORM is all about. Who's to blame for the way this battle turns out? Let's find out!
This is all the Courland videos placed into one complete video. Good luck to all of you who marathon this, and be sure to boast about that in the comment section below!
The script for this video was approximately 47,500 words!
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Episode 1 "Scraping the Barrel"
00:38:33 Episode 2 "The Baltic Tragedy"
01:02:22 Episode 3 "Operation Doppelkopf"
01:38:16 Episode 4 "Tartu and Operation Cäsar"
02:13:16 Episode 5 "Reconquest of Estonia"
02:50:10 Episode 6 "Cutting off Army Group North"
03:25:38 Episode 7 "The 1st Battle of the Courland Pocket"
03:56:50 Episode 8 "The 2nd Battle of the Courland Pocket"
04:33:12 Episode 9 "The 3rd Battle of the Courland Pocket"
05:08:07 Episode 10 "The 4th and 5th Battles of Courland"
05:45:11 Episode 11 "Capitulation"
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If you like Stalingrad, you may also enjoy historian Anton Joly's YouTube channel "Stalingrad Battle Data". Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIk1QDvITjPOCsIRGGpSasA
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