Company Siegfried
Company Siegfried was the code name for the German operations in the period from October 12 to 21, 1941, to capture the Estonian island of Dagö ( Hiiumaa in Estonian ) in World War II .
The landing of the 61st Infantry Division ( 18th Army , Army Group North ) took place via the island of Ösel / Moon with assault boats. At the same time, the diversion companies Westphalia and East Prussia were running , at which Cape Ristna was shot to simulate a landing there.
Due to strong German pressure, the Red Army evacuated part of the island's crew to Odensholm and Hangö on October 16 . On October 21, 1941, the Red Army resistance at Cape Takhkona ended . 3,388 Soviet soldiers were captured during the operation.
source
- Percy Ernst Schramm (Ed.): War diary of the OKW , 1940-1941, Volume 1, Part 2, ISBN 3-8289-0525-0