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Baltic offensive, the Glossary

The Baltic offensive, also known as the Baltic strategic offensive, was the military campaign between the northern Fronts of the Red Army and the German Army Group North in the Baltic States during the autumn of 1944.^[1]

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Afanasy Beloborodov

Afanasy Pavlantyevich Beloborodov (Афанасий Павлантьевич Белобородов; – 1 September 1990) was a general in the Red Army during the Second World War who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Aircraft

An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.

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Andrey Yeryomenko

Andrey Ivanovich Yeryomenko (Андре́й Ива́нович Ерёменко; Ukrainian: Андрій Іванович Єрьоменко; November 19, 1970) was a Soviet general during World War II and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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Anton Grasser

Anton Grasser (3 November 1891 – 3 November 1976) was a German general during World War II who commanded several corps.

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Army Group A

Army Group A was the name of three distinct army groups of the Heer, the ground forces of the Wehrmacht, during World War II.

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Army Group Centre

Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte) was the name of two distinct strategic German Army Groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.

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Army Group Courland

Army Group Courland (Heeresgruppe Kurland) was a German Army Group on the Eastern Front.

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Army Group North

Army Group North (Heeresgruppe Nord) was the name of three separate army groups of the Wehrmacht during World War II.

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Šiauliai

Šiauliai (Šiaulē) is a city in northern Lithuania, the country's fourth largest city and the sixth largest city in the Baltic States, with a population of 108,000 in 2023.

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Šiauliai offensive

The Šiauliai offensive (Шяуляйская операция) was an operation of the Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front, commanded by General Hovhannes Bagramyan, conducted from 5 July to 29 August 1944, during the Second World War. Baltic offensive and Šiauliai offensive are conflicts in 1944, military operations of World War II involving Germany and strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Baltic states

The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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Battle of Memel

The Battle of Memel or the Siege of Memel (Erste Kurlandschlacht) was a battle which took place on the Eastern Front during World War II. Baltic offensive and battle of Memel are 1944 in Lithuania, battles and operations of the Soviet–German War and conflicts in 1944.

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The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR or Byelorussian SSR; Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка; Белорусская Советская Социалистическая Республика), also known as Byelorussia, was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).

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Christian Hansen (general)

Christian Hansen (10 April 1885 – 7 August 1972) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 16th Army.

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Courland

Courland is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia.

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Courland Pocket

The Courland Pocket was an area of the Courland Peninsula where Army Group North of Nazi Germany and the Reichskommissariat Ostland were cut off and surrounded by the Red Army for almost a year, lasting from July 1944 until 10 May 1945. Baltic offensive and Courland Pocket are 1944 in Latvia, battles and operations of the Soviet–German War and military operations of World War II involving Germany.

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Crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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East Prussia

East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Erhard Raus

Erhard Raus (8 January 1889 – 3 April 1956) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity

The Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity (also known as the History Commission or Max Jakobson Commission) was the commission established by President of Estonia Lennart Meri in October 1998 to investigate crimes against humanity committed in Estonia or against its citizens during the Soviet and German occupation, such as Soviet deportations from Estonia and the Holocaust in Estonia. Baltic offensive and Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity are occupation of the Baltic states.

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Ferdinand Schörner

Ferdinand Schörner (12 June 1892 – 2 July 1973) was a German military commander who held the rank of Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Filipp Starikov

Filipp Nikiforovich Starikov (Фили́пп Никано́рович Ста́риков; – 2 October 1980) was a Soviet military commander.

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Front (military formation)

A front (front) is a type of military formation that originated in the Russian Empire, and has been used by the Polish Army, the Red Army, the Soviet Army, and Turkey.

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Georg-Hans Reinhardt

Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1 March 1887 – 23 November 1963) was a German general of the Wehrmacht during World War II, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes.

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Guerrilla war in the Baltic states

The guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an insurgency waged by Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian) partisans against the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1956. Baltic offensive and guerrilla war in the Baltic states are occupation of the Baltic states.

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Gulf of Riga

The Gulf of Riga, Bay of Riga, or Gulf of Livonia (Rīgas līcis, Liivi laht) is a bay of the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Estonia.

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Herbert Loch

Herbert Loch (5 August 1886 – 28 October 1976) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the XXVIII Corps and the 18th Army.

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Hero of the Soviet Union

The title Hero of the Soviet Union (translit) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.

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Hiiumaa

Hiiumaa is the second largest island in Estonia and is part of the West Estonian archipelago, in the Baltic Sea.

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Ivan Bagramyan

Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan, also known as Hovhannes Khachaturi Baghramyan (– 21 September 1982), was a Soviet military commander of Armenian origin who held the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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Ivan Chernyakhovsky

Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky (Иван Данилович Черняховский; Іван Данилович Черняховський; – 18 February 1945) was the youngest-ever Soviet General of the army.

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Ivan Chistyakov

Ivan Mikhailovich Chistyakov (– 7 March 1979) was a Soviet Army colonel general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Ivan Fedyuninsky

Ivan Ivanovich Fedyuninsky (Ива́н Ива́нович Федю́нинский; July 30, 1900 – October 17, 1977) was a Soviet military leader and Hero of the Soviet Union (1939).

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Ivan Maslennikov

Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov (Иван Иванович Масленников; September 16, 1900 – April 16, 1954), General of the Army, was a Soviet military and NKVD commander of Army and Front level during World War II.

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Johannes Frießner

Johannes Frießner (22 March 1892 – 26 June 1971) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Killed in action

Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own personnel at the hands of enemy or hostile forces at the moment of action.

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Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz (p) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union.

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Leningrad Front

The Leningrad Front (Ленинградский фронт) was formed during the 1941 German approach on Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front on August 27, 1941.

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Leonid Govorov

Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Го́воров; – 19 March 1955) was a Soviet military commander.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Military

A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.

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Missing in action

Missing in action (MIA) is a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains, combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during wartime or ceasefire.

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Moonsund operation

The Moonsund landing operation (Моонзундская десантная операция; Lääne-Eesti saarte kaitsmine; Moonsund Invasionen), also known as the Moonzund landing operation, was an amphibious operation and offensive by the Red Army during World War II, taking place in late 1944. Baltic offensive and Moonsund operation are 1944 in Estonia, Baltic Sea operations of World War II, battles and operations of the Soviet–German War, battles involving the Soviet Union, conflicts in 1944 and military operations of World War II involving Germany.

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Muhu

Muhu (also called Muhumaa in Estonian) is an island in the West Estonian archipelago of the Baltic Sea.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nikolai Simoniak

Nikolai Pavlovich Simoniak (Николай Павлович Симоняк, – April 23, 1956) was a General in the Soviet Army during World War II.

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Operation Bagration

Operation Bagration (Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya operatsiya "Bagration"), a military campaign fought between 22 June and 19 August 1944 in Soviet Byelorussia in the Eastern Front of World War II, just over two weeks after the start of Operation Overlord in the west, causing Nazi Germany to have to fight on two major fronts at the same time. Baltic offensive and operation Bagration are battles and operations of the Soviet–German War, conflicts in 1944, military operations of World War II involving Germany, strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II and World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front.

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Operation Doppelkopf

Operation Doppelkopf (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. Baltic offensive and Operation Doppelkopf are battles and operations of the Soviet–German War, battles involving the Soviet Union, conflicts in 1944 and military operations of World War II involving Germany.

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Operation Priboi

Operation Priboi (Операция «Прибой» – Operation "Tidal Wave") was the code name for the biggest Stalin-era Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949. Baltic offensive and Operation Priboi are occupation of the Baltic states.

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Panther–Wotan line

The Panther–Wotan line, or Ostwall in German, was a defensive line partially built by the German Wehrmacht in 1943 on the Eastern Front.

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Panzergrenadier Division Großdeutschland

The Großdeutschland", also commonly referred to simply as Großdeutschland or Großdeutschland Division, was an elite combat unit of the German Army (Heer) that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Porfiry Chanchibadze

Porfiry Georgiyevich Chanchibadze (პორფილე ჩანჩიბაძე, Порфирий Георгиевич Чанчибадзе); 13 December 1901 - 14 March 1950) was a Soviet Colonel General and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Pyotr Malyshev

Pyotr Fyodorovich Malyshev (28 August 1898 – 10 December 1972) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Resistance movement

A resistance movement are Political Movements that tries to resist or overthrow a government or an occupying power, causing disruption and unrest in civil order and stability.

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Riga

Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States.

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Riga offensive (1944)

The Riga offensive (lit) was part of the larger Baltic offensive on the Eastern Front during World War II. Baltic offensive and Riga offensive (1944) are 1944 in Estonia, 1944 in Latvia, conflicts in 1944 and strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II.

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Saaremaa

Saaremaa (lit. island land) (also called Ösel) is the largest and most populous island in Estonia.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Singing Revolution

The Singing Revolution was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Sovietization

Sovietization (sovyetizatsiya) is the adoption of a political system based on the model of soviets (workers' councils) or the adoption of a way of life, mentality, and culture modeled after the Soviet Union.

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Stalin's ten blows

In Soviet historiography, Stalin's ten blows (Desyat' stalinskikh udarov) were the ten successful strategic offensives in Europe conducted by the Red Army in 1944 during World War II.

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Stavka

The Stavka (Russian and Ukrainian: Ставка, Belarusian: Стаўка) is a name of the high command of the armed forces formerly used formerly in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union and currently in Ukraine.

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Tallinn offensive

The Tallinn offensive (Таллинская наступательная операция) was a strategic offensive by the Red Army's 2nd Shock and 8th armies and the Baltic Fleet against the German Army Detachment ''Narwa'' and Estonian units in mainland Estonia on the Eastern Front of World War II on 17–26 September 1944. Baltic offensive and Tallinn offensive are 1944 in Estonia, battles involving the Soviet Union, conflicts in 1944, military operations of World War II involving Germany and strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II.

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Tank

A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat.

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Vasily Volsky

Vasily Timofeyevich Volsky (Василий Тимофе́евич Во́льский; 10 March 1897 in Tula Province, Russia – 22 February 1946 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a General of Soviet tank forces.

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Viktor Obukhov

Viktor Timofeyevich Obukhov (– 26 November 1975) was a Soviet Army colonel general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Vladimir Sviridov (military commander)

Vladimir Petrovich Sviridov (Владимир Петрович Свиридов; Уладзімір Пятровіч Свірыдаў; December 7, 1897 - May 3, 1963) was a Soviet military commander and lieutenant general of artillery, who played an important role in the Soviet occupation of Central Europe after the War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_offensive

Also known as Baltic Offensive (1944), Baltic Operation (1944), Baltic strategic offensive, Battle of the Baltic (1944).

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See also

1944 in Estonia

1944 in Latvia

1944 in Lithuania

Baltic Sea operations of World War II

World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front

References