Operation Doppelkopf
Operation Doppelkopf (German: Unternehmen Doppelkopf) and the following Operation Cäsar were German counter-offensives on the Eastern Front in the late summer of 1944 in the aftermath of the major Soviet advance in Operation Bagration with the aim of restoring a coherent front between Army Group North and Army Group Centre. The operation's codename was a reference to the German card game Doppelkopf.
| Operation Doppelkopf | |||||||
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| Part of Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||
Eastern Front, June–August 1944. The attack at the connection between Army Groups Centre (Third Panzer Army) and North (Sixteenth Army) west of Riga is marked. | |||||||
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| Germany | Soviet Union | ||||||
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Georg-Hans Reinhardt (Army Group Centre) Erhard Raus (Third Panzer Army) |
Ivan Chernyakhovsky (3rd Belorussian Front) Hovhannes Bagramyan (1st Baltic Front) | ||||||
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