Battle of Kock

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Battle of Kock
Polish soldiers in action at Kock
Polish soldiers in action at Kock
date October 2-6, 1939
place Kock and environs, Poland
output Tactical victory of the Poles.
Strategic German success
Parties to the conflict

Poland 1928Second Polish Republic Poland

German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire

Commander

Poland 1928Second Polish Republic Franciszek Kleeberg

German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) Gustav von Wietersheim

Troop strength
SGO Polesie
(18,000 men) 		XIV Motorized Corps (30,000 men)
losses

250 to 300 dead
17,000 captured

300 to 500 dead
185 captured

Overall situation

The Battle of Kock took place during the Second World War between October 2nd and 5th, 1939 near the small town of Kock in central Poland. It was the last battle of the attack on Poland or the Polish campaign . Units of the Polish "Independent Operations Group Polesien " (Polish Samodzielna Grupa Operacyjna Polesie ) under General Franciszek Kleeberg (1888-1941) fought against units of the German XIV Motorized Corps under General Gustav von Wietersheim . The battle ended with a Polish victory on the morning of October 5th. Due to the hopeless overall situation at the front and the exhaustion of ammunition stocks, the surrender of the Polish units took place on October 6th . With the end of the fighting, 17,000 Polish soldiers became German prisoners of war .

Operational cards

  • Battle for Kock
    (October 3, 1939)

  • Battle for Kock
    (October 5, 1939)

literature

  • Jan Wróblewski: Samodzielna grupa operacyjna "Polesie" 1939 . Wojskowy Instytut Historyczny, Warsaw 1989, ISBN 83-11-07659-6 .
  • Marian Porwit : Komentarze do historii polskich działań obronnych 1939 roku . 3rd volumes. Czytelnik, Warsaw 1983, ISBN 83-07-00645-7 .
  • Stanley S. Seidner: Marshal Edward Śmigły-Rydz Rydz and Poland. 1935-1939 . University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor MI 1979 (Also: Collegeville Michigan, St. John's Univ., Diss., 1975).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Battle of Kock ( Polish ) Polish-Military.pl. October 7, 2005. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved on February 27, 2009.

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