Kaunas offensive

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The Kaunas offensive was a major World War II Soviet military operation in 1944 aimed at liberating the Lithuanian city of Kaunas from German occupation as part of the broader Eastern Front campaigns.

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Kaunas offensive canonical 3
Kaunas Offensive 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II military operation
military offensive
aimedAt German Army Group Centre positions
belligerent Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
category Battles and operations of the Eastern Front of World War II
Military history of Lithuania during World War II
Military operations of World War II involving the Soviet Union
combatant Red Army
Wehrmacht
commandedUnit 1st Baltic Front
3rd Belorussian Front
commander Hovhannes Bagramyan
Ivan Bagramyan
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Germany
Soviet Union
date 1944
endDate 1944-08-28
followedBy Baltic Offensive
surface form: Baltic offensive
frontLineChange Soviet advance to the Neman River region
historicalPeriod 1944 on the Eastern Front
involvedFormation German infantry divisions
German panzer units
Soviet rifle divisions
Soviet tank units
location Kaunas
Lithuania
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
surface form: Lithuanian SSR
objective advance Soviet front line in the Baltic region
liberation of Kaunas from German occupation
opposingCommander Georg-Hans Reinhardt NERFINISHED
Walter Model
opposingUnit Army Group Centre
outcome liberation of Kaunas
partOf Eastern Front
surface form: Eastern Front (World War II)

Operation Bagration follow‑up operations
Soviet summer offensive of 1944
precededBy Belorussian strategic offensive operation
surface form: Operation Bagration
relatedTo Soviet operations in the Baltic region
liberation of Lithuania in World War II
result Soviet victory
startDate 1944-07-28
strategicEffect contributed to isolation of German forces in the Baltic States
pushed German forces westward from central Lithuania
theater Eastern Front
typeOfOperation offensive ground operation

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3rd Belorussian Front tookPartIn Kaunas offensive
Soviet summer offensive of 1944 hasPart Kaunas offensive
this entity surface form: Kaunas Offensive
Vilnius offensive followedBy Kaunas offensive
Minsk offensive (1944) followedBy Kaunas offensive