Baltic offensive (1944)

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The Baltic offensive (1944) was a major World War II Soviet military campaign that drove German forces out of the Baltic states and cut off Army Group North.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II Eastern Front campaign
military offensive
alsoKnownAs Baltic Offensive
surface form: Baltic strategic offensive operation
belligerent Estonian units in Wehrmacht
Latvian Legion
Lithuanian units in Wehrmacht
Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
campaign Soviet summer offensive of 1944
surface form: Soviet 1944 summer–autumn strategic offensives
commander Ferdinand Schörner
Georg von Küchler
Ivan Bagramyan
Ivan Maslennikov
Leonid Govorov
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Germany
Soviet Union
effect isolation of Army Group North in Courland Pocket
restoration of Soviet control over Baltic states
endDate 1944-11-24
followedBy Courland Pocket battles
frontInvolved 1st Baltic Front
2nd Baltic Front
3rd Baltic Front
Leningrad Front (Soviet Union)
surface form: Leningrad Front
historicalRegion Eastern Europe
location Baltic states
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Eastern Front
surface form: eastern front of World War II
notableBattle Battle of Memel
Baltic offensive (1944) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Battle of Riga (1944)

Battle of Tannenberg Line
surface form: Battle of the Tannenberg Line
objective cut off Army Group North from the rest of German forces
expel German forces from the Baltic states
opponent Army Group North
partOf Eastern Front
surface form: Eastern Front (World War II)
precededBy Operation Bagration
result Soviet victory
startDate 1944-09-14
subOperation Memel offensive
surface form: Memel offensive operation

Moonsund Landing Operation
Baltic offensive (1944) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Riga offensive (1944)

Tallinn offensive (1944)
Šiauliai offensive
theater Baltic Sea coast region
surface form: Baltic Sea region
timePeriod 1944

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Andrey Yeremenko participatedIn Baltic offensive (1944)
Army Group North operation Baltic offensive (1944)
this entity surface form: Baltic States campaign
Army Group North notableBattle Baltic offensive (1944)
this entity surface form: Battle of Narva (1944)
1st Baltic Front tookPartIn Baltic offensive (1944)
this entity surface form: Riga offensive (1944)
1st Baltic Front tookPartIn Baltic offensive (1944)
18th Army (Wehrmacht) notableEngagement Baltic offensive (1944)
this entity surface form: Baltic States campaign
16th Army (Wehrmacht) notableOperation Baltic offensive (1944)
this entity surface form: Baltic operations
Luftflotte 1 (in air support role) campaign Baltic offensive (1944)
this entity surface form: Baltic States campaign
Baltic offensive (1944) subOperation Baltic offensive (1944) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Riga offensive (1944)
Baltic offensive (1944) notableBattle Baltic offensive (1944) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Battle of Riga (1944)
Battle of Narva (1944) partOf Baltic offensive (1944)
this entity surface form: Soviet 1944 Baltic offensive operations
Battle of Tannenberg Line partOf Baltic offensive (1944)
this entity surface form: Soviet Baltic offensive (1944)
Tallinn offensive (1944) partOf Baltic offensive (1944)
this entity surface form: Baltic offensive