Ruhr Pocket

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World War II battle military encirclement

The Ruhr Pocket was a major World War II encirclement in April 1945 in which Allied forces trapped and destroyed a large portion of the German Army in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region, hastening the collapse of Nazi resistance on the Western Front.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II battle → military encirclement →
allianceInvolved	Allied forces → Western Allies →
alsoKnownAs	Ruhr encirclement → Ruhrkessel →
attackingForce	British 2nd Army → U.S. 1st Army → U.S. 9th Army →
commandedBy	Field Marshal Walter Model →
conflict	World War II →
countryInvolved	Canada → France → Nazi Germany → United Kingdom → United States →
defendingForce	Army Group B →
endTime	1945-04-18 →
followedBy	final Allied advance into central Germany →
hasCause	Allied advance into western Germany →
hasEffect	collapse of German resistance on the Western Front → destruction of large German forces in the Ruhr → large-scale German surrender →
locatedIn	Germany → Ruhr region →
notableEvent	mass surrender of German troops in the Ruhr → suicide of Field Marshal Walter Model →
opponent	German Army →
partOf	Western Front of World War II →
result	decisive Allied victory → encirclement of German Army Group B →
significantPlace	Bochum → Dortmund → Duisburg → Essen → Hagen → Hamm → Hattingen → Iserlohn → Lüdenscheid → Menden → Paderborn → Remagen → Soest → Unna → Wesel → Wuppertal →
startTime	1945-04-01 →
strategicImportance	center of German heavy industry → major coal and steel production area →
timePeriod	April 1945 →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Western Allied invasion of Germany → Western Allied invasion of Germany ("Encirclement of the Ruhr") →	hasPart
Ruhr Pocket ("Ruhr encirclement") →	alsoKnownAs
Army Group B ("Defense of the Ruhr Pocket") →	engagedIn
U.S. Ninth Army →	engagement
Western Front (World War II) →	notableEvent
Army Group B ("Defense of the Ruhr") →	notableOperation