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The code name company Brückenschlag denotes an offensive operation of the German Wehrmacht during the war against the Soviet Union in 1942, which was carried out to open the Demyansk pocket.

→ Main article : “Relief attack” in the article Demyansk Kettle Battle

Company Brückenschlag referred to all military operations carried out from the west to open the boiler. The company was carried out on March 20, 1942 south of Staraya Russa by the Seydlitz shock group ( Lieutenant General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach ). At the town of Ramuschewo on the Lowat River, the relief troops met the German troops breaking out of the pocket ( Operation Fallreep ).

literature

• Walther von Seydlitz: Stalingrad - conflict and consequence. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg et al. 1977, ISBN 3-7979-1353-2 , pp. 134-143.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walther von Seydlitz: Stalingrad conflict and consequence. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg et al. 1977, ISBN 3-7979-1353-2 , pp. 134-143.