Operation Büffel

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Operation Büffel was a 1943 German military withdrawal operation on the Eastern Front, involving a planned retreat and scorched-earth tactics to shorten and consolidate their defensive lines against the Soviet Union.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German military operation
World War II military operation
military operation
alsoKnownAs Büffelbewegung NERFINISHED
appliesTactic delaying actions
demolition of bridges
demolition of railways
destruction of infrastructure
evacuation of population
mining of roads
planned retreat
scorched earth
belligerentRole German defensive maneuver
conflict Eastern Front of World War II NERFINISHED
consequence destruction of local economy in withdrawal zone
devastation of evacuated areas
displacement of civilian population
country Germany NERFINISHED
goal conduct planned withdrawal from exposed salients
consolidate German defensive positions
shorten German defensive lines
hasPartOf Eastern Front NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod 1943 on the Eastern Front
implementedBy German Army Group Centre NERFINISHED
languageOfName German
location Eastern Front NERFINISHED
central sector of the Eastern Front
militaryBranch German Army NERFINISHED
namedAfter buffalo
natureOfOperation defensive operation
strategic retreat
withdrawal operation
objective deny resources to advancing Soviet forces
slow Soviet advance
opponent Red Army NERFINISHED
Soviet Union NERFINISHED
participant Nazi Germany NERFINISHED
Wehrmacht NERFINISHED
partOf German strategic withdrawals on the Eastern Front
result German withdrawal to shorter defensive line
side Axis powers NERFINISHED
startTime 1943
temporalContext World War II NERFINISHED
theater Soviet–German front NERFINISHED

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Operation Mars followedBy Operation Büffel
Rzhev meat grinder hasPart Operation Büffel